* ASCENSION ISLAND. 1752. 95 



pecloral-fins, and have five rays : the anal-fin 

 is higher forwards : the body is narrow, grey 

 at the top, white below, above a foot long, 

 and covered with a fkin : the prominences on 

 the fides of the tail confift of many clofe fpines, 

 (27, 49) which form the hind part of the la- 

 teral line : its fore-part is bent and unarmed : 

 the head is obtufe : the mouth oblong : the 

 teeth fmall : the lower jaw is the longeft : the 

 cpercida branchioftega have no incifions. 



Perca Adfcenfionis : the membrana bran- 

 chioftega has eight, the dorfal-fin twenty- feven, 

 the pecloral-fim fixteen, the ventral-fin eight, 

 the anal-fin fourteen, and the furcated tail 

 twenty-fix, rays : the dorfal-fin is towards the 

 middle of the fifh : its firft eleven rays are 

 pungent, the fixteen following (of which the 

 two firft are the higheft) are not armed : the 

 opercula branchioftega confift of two plates, 

 which are dentated; two of thefe teeth are 

 large, the others fmall and numerous: the 

 jaws are dentated above the rioftrils : the firft 

 ray of the dorfal-fin is the fhorteit ; the fecond 

 is the ftrongeft, (harp pointed, and floated 

 backwards ; the third is fomewhat fhorter and 

 thinner ; the '-eft are not armed : the body is 

 narrow, reddifh at the top, and whitifh below 1 



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