208 MENDOLE. 



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

 particularly points out four teeth in the lower 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 appearance, 

 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. 



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

 Fishes." 



