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the fcales lie tranfverfally, are oblong, and 

 dentated before. 



Trachinus Adfcenfionis, This fifh taftes ex- 

 ceedingly well, and is diftinguiflied from others 

 by the following marks : the dorfal-Jin has 

 twenty-eight rays, the pecloral-fins eighteen'* 

 the ventral-fins five, the anal-Jin eleven, the 

 tail fixteen, and the membrana branchiojlega 

 fix rays ; the latter is white with brown fpots : 

 the fingle dorfal-Jin is every where of equal 

 breadth, and runs from the head to the tail : 

 its firft eleven rays are fharp pointed : the 

 pecloral-fins are obovated ; and fo are the ven- 

 tral-fins ; and their firft ray is prickly : the 

 three firft rays of the anal-fin, which is like- 

 wife obovated, are prickly : the tail is wedge- 

 fhaped, with (hort rays : the body is fomewhat 

 comprefTed, and not quite round, covered with 

 a white fkin, on which the brown fpots run 

 into one another: the head is fomewhat com- 

 prefTed : the opercula branchiojlega confift of 

 three fcales, of which the middlemoft ends in 

 two teeth j one of them is long and pointed : 

 the eyes are near each other, in the upper 

 part of the head, and are large : the nojlrils 

 are round ; befides them are two greater holes 

 in the forehead : the teeth are fixed in the 



gums- 



