ii 4 OSB E CK'S VOYAGE. 



anus, or nearly to the middle, it is heptagonal, 

 and has eighteen rings ; but lower down it is 

 quadrangular to the tail, and has thirty-two 

 rings. The female (according toArtedi's Syn. 

 iii. p. 3.) has the ovary near the anus, where 

 he likewise fays, that the body is polygonal, 

 and broader below : the beak is long, cylin- 

 drical, and narrow. 



Scylltza pelagica, or the Sea-hare. Seba 

 took them for the young ones of the Lophius 

 tumidus, Muf. Reg. : but it is difficult to per- 

 fuade one's felf of the truth of this ; unlefs 

 fomebody would keep them, and obferve 

 their changes. The following is their defer ip- 

 tion : the body is like a jelly, oblong, narrow, 

 of a yellow-grey colour, and has a longitudi- 

 nal fiflure below, by means of which it can 

 furround the fea-weed (Fucus) both length- 

 ways and crofs-ways with the fore-part or 

 hind-part: it is two inches long, and fcarce 

 one inch broad : the Jides are flat, with little 

 carnofe, cone-ihaped, whitilh prominences: 

 the back (which by fome has been miftaken 

 for the lower-part) is almoft flat, with very 

 (hortj dark bridles, and {harp-pointed mar- 

 gins, to which fome appendages (Fulcra) or 

 arms nadfins are fattened : the bead is com- 



preifed, 



