Class IV. LONGER PIPE. 139 



inches and a half long, covered by tv/o longitudi- 

 nal valves which concealed a multitude of young 

 fifh. On crufhing this part, hundreds may be 

 o.bferved to crawl out. 



The general color of the fifh was an olive brown : 

 the fides marked with numbers of bluifh lines point- 

 ing from the back to the belly, which, in dried fifh, 

 feemed like the figns of fo many joints. Thofe in 

 a frefli fubject ceafed beyond the vent; all beyond 

 that was fpotted with brown. 



The dorfal fin was narrow and thin, confiding 

 of forty rays, was two inches long, and placed ra- 

 ther nearer to the head than the tail. 



The vent was feven inches from the tip of the 

 nofe -, the body to that orifice was of an equal 

 thicknefs, but from thence tapered to a very fmall 

 point, having no mark of a fin. 



The pectoral fins had twelve rays ; the anal three. 



When this fifh and the next fpecies are dried, 

 they appear covered with numbers of angular crufls, 

 finely radiated from their centre. 



As we waat a generical name in our language 

 for this genus, we call it the Pipe Fifi, from its, 

 (lender bodv. 



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