URANOSCOPUS. STAR-GAZER. 



Generic Character. 



Caput depressum, scabrum, 



majus. 

 Os cirrho interne 



^Opercula membranaceo-ci- 

 liata. 



Membr. branch, radiis quin- 

 que. 



Head large, depressed, 

 rough. 



Mouth furnished with an ia* 

 ternal cirrus. 



Gill-covers edged by a cili- 

 ated border. 



Gill-membrane five-rayed. 



BEARDED STAR-GAZER, 



Uranoscopus Scaber. U. labiis cirrhosis, dorso Iceti. 

 Star-Gazer with bearded lips and smooth back. 

 Uranoscopus scaber. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 434. 

 Uranoscopus. Capite scabro. Block. 5. p. 75. pi. 163, 

 Uranoscopus. Gesn. Aldr. Will. SfC 



TThE head of this fish is large, squarish, and 

 covered by a strong bony case, roughened by an 

 infinite number of small warts or protuberances : 

 each side of this case is terminated above by two 

 spines, the hindermost of which is the strongest 

 and covered by a skin: the under part has five 

 spines, smaller than those above : the mouth, which 



