208 MENDOLE. 



whole body, but especially on tbe back and bead; and he 

 particularly points out four teeth in the ower jaw that were 

 larger and longer than the others. Observers who have been 

 well acquainted with this fish in one district, have felt them- 

 selves at a loss, in consequence of this diversity of a2:)pearance, 

 to recognise it in another. 



Fin rays, with some difference of enumeration by different 

 writers, dorsal eleven spinous and twenty-three soft; pectoral 

 fifteen; ventral one spinous and five soft; anal three spinous 

 and nine soft. 



'J he figure we give is taken from Willoughby's "History of 

 I'ishes." 



