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FLYING PEGASUS. 



broad, slightly flattened, squarish form, and is 

 marked both above and beneath by several radiated 

 shields or bony tubercles of considerable size : from 

 each side the abdomen springs a lengthened cirrus, 

 which may be considered as supplying the place of 

 a ventral fm : from the thorax the body decreases 

 suddenly in diameter, and is marked into several 

 divisions or transverse segments : the tail is small 

 and slightly rounded : the pectoral fms, as before 

 observed, are large in proportion to the size of the 

 animal, and of a rounded shape, v^ith a kind of 

 scolloped or indented outline: the eyes are large 

 and protuberant, and the snout of a subconical 

 form, but with a slight dilatation towards the tip, 

 so as to appear spatule-shaped when viewed from 

 above : the colour of the whole animal is whitish, 

 with a slight cast of pale-brown. It is a native of 

 the Indian seas. 



FLYING PEGASUS. 



Pegasus Volans. P. rostro ensiformi denticulato. Lin. Syst. 

 Nat. 



Pegasus with ensiform denticulated snout. 



Length about three inches : snout much elon- 

 gated, flattened, rounded, and slightly dilated at the 

 tip ; marked by a longitudinal channel, and crenat- 

 ed or denticulated on the edges : on the head a 

 rhomboidal depression, and behind it two deep sub- 

 pentagonal cavities : last joints of the body, next 

 the tail, pointed on each side. Native of the In- 

 dian seas. 



