Ostracion bicaudalis. Old Wife. Body triangular: back 
fharp: the boney coat, on the head and body, divided by ftriae, 
into many hexangular mefhes: the areas rough with numerous 
granule, ranged in concentric lines: the fkinny cover of the body 
near the tail, and the tail-fin, marked with largifh fpots: a ftrong 
fpine on each fide the belly, pointing towards the tails length one 
foot. D. io. P. 12. A. io. 
Inhabits the Indian ocean. 
Grew in his account of the Rarities preferved in Grefham-col- 
lege mentions a fifh apparently the fame as the above, excepting 
an oval cruft it has upon the tail. 
