278 Mr. LaTHAW's Effay on 
which have yet come under the infpection of the Naturalift, fome 
fpecimens meafuring fifteen fect in length. 
The head is rather flat at top, the eyes large, with yellow uides; 
behind each is a hole, which fome have fuppofed may lead to an 
organ of hearing*. The. mouth is well furnifhed with teeth, but 
they are blunt, ferving rather to bruife its prey than to divide it by 
cutting. Before the mouth are two other foramina, fuppofed to 
be the noftrils. The rofrum, beak, or faout, is in general about 
one-third of the total length of the fifh, and contains in fome 
eighteen, in others as far as twenty-three or twenty-four /pines 
on each fide; thefe are very ftout, much thicker at the back part, 
and channelled, inclining to an edge forwards. The fins are feven | 
in number—viz. two dor/al, placed at fome diftance from each — 
other—two préloral, taking rife juft behind the breathing-holes, 
which are five in number—two ventral, fituated almoft under- 
neath the firft dorfal—and-laftly the caudal, occupying the tail = 
both above and beneath, but longeft on the upper part. -The ge- 
neral colour of the bady is a dull grey, or brownifh, growing paler 
as it approaches the belly, where it is nearly white. 
2. PECTINATUS. 
Pr. roftro fpinis anguftioribus utrinque ad 34 Tab. 26. fig. 2. 
Priftis feu Serra, Gefner Ag. fig. in p. 728. (fpin. 34.) Id. Ic. An. 
P. 17 1.— Muf. Befler. tab. 17. f. 3. (fpin. 28.)— 44. f. 1. (caput, 
fpinis 25.) Aldr. Cet. f. p. 692.— Fobnf. Pie. p. 8. 1. 111.— 
(ipin. 28.)]—B/af. Anat. p. 466. t. 49. f. 13—Bloch Deutch. 
f. 37. ^. 120. (roftr. arcuat.) Knorr. Delic. p. 56. 1. H. 4.— 
Ofear. Kunfi. p. 38. 1. 25. f. 1,—Pontop. Hifl. Norv. IL. p. 240. 
(fpin. 25.) 
Habitat in oceano. 
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* Nos foramina hxc meatus auditorios eiie credimus. Willughb. 
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