280 Mn. Latuam’s Effay on 
firft is about a foot and a half in length, the other more than 
two feet and a half: in both of thefe are twenty-eight fpines on 
. each fide; but the diftinguifhing feature is in the fpines them- 
felves being particularly flat and broad, and fhaped at the point 
more like the /ancet ufed by furgeons in bleeding, than any other 
figure. We believe that no author has hitherto taken notice of 
this fpecies. | 
4.  MicroDON. 
Pr. roftro fpinis minutis vix roftrum exerentibus. "Tab. 26. 
-fig. 4. 3 | = 
Hehitat uoc ceca 
Corpus üt in congeneribus, 28 pollices longum. 
Roffrum planum, a bafi ad apicem modice attenuatum.—Spine 
utrinque 18, minus conípicuz. 
A complete fpecimen of this fifh is in the mufeum of Mr. 
Parkinfon, which is probably unique; the total length is twenty- 
eight inches, the /zout occupying ten; from the bafe of this to 
. that of the feéfora/ fins four inches; between the $ecfora! and ven- 
tral fins fix. The two dorfal fins occupy nearly the fame propor- 
tions in refpe& to each other; but the hinder one is the fmalleft, 
and all of them are greatly hollowed out at the back part, much, 
more fo than in the two firft fpecies. 
The /nout differs from that of every other, in feveral particulars: 
it 1s longer in proportion, ‘being more than one-third of the whole 
fifth. The /piies do not ftand out from the fides more than a quar- 
ter of an inch, and from this circumftance feem far lefs capable of 
doing injury than any other fpecies yet known. 
5. CinRATUS. 
