Class IV. SORDID DRAGONET. i6; 



D-racunculus. Wil. Icth. 136. Callionymus Dracunculus. C. 70. Sos.dis, 

 Rail fyn. pifc. 79. dorfaiis prioris racliis cor- 



Cottus pinna fecunda dorii al- pore brevioribus. Lin.fyfi. 

 ba Arted, fynon. 77. 434. 



THIS fpecies we received from Mr. 'Travis, 

 Its length was only fix inches and an half. 



The head was compreffed ; the forehead floped 

 down to the nofe, being not fo level as that of the 

 preceding. 



The eyes large, and almoft contiguous. , 



The mouth fmall ; the teeth very minute. 



Over the gills was a flrong trifurcated broad fpine. 



The firft dorfal fin had four rays ; the firft feta- 

 ceous, extending a little higher than the others^ the 

 lall very fhort : the tvs^o firft rays and webs were 

 yellow, the others black. 



The fecond had ten foft rays, their ends extend- 

 ing beyond the webs, which were pellucid. 



The pecloral fins confifted of twenty rays, and 

 were ferruginous, fpotted with a deeper cad of the 

 fame : the ventral fins confifted of five broad and 

 much branched rays, like thofe of the firft fpecies. 



The anal fin was v/hite, and had ten rays , the 

 tail had ten rays. In both fpecies they are bifur- 

 cated at their endsj and the ray next the anal fin in 

 both is very fliorr. 



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