i 9 6 TRIFURCATED HAKE. Class IV. 



$$. TaiFOR- >T*HIS new fpecies was communicated to me 



gated I 



■* by the Reverend Mr. Hugh Davies of Beau- 

 maris, and was taken near that place. 



Its length was twelve inches : the color a deep 

 brown ; excepting the folding of the lips, which 

 were fnow white, giving it a flrange appearance. 



The head deprelTed and very broad : eyes large : 

 irides yellowifh : mouth very wide, with irregular 

 rows of incurvated teeth. In the roof of the mouth 

 a femilunar congeries of teeth. No tongue. 



From the fetting on of the pectoral fins the body 

 was CQmprefTed, but remarkably fo, as it approach- 

 ed the tail, growing very (lender near that part. 

 On the beginning of the back was a /ulcus, in 

 which was the rudiment of a firft dorfal fin ; the 

 fecond reached almofl to the tail, and the anal cor- 

 refponded. Above the pectoral fins, on each fide, 

 was a row of tubercles from which commenced 

 the lateral line, which was (midway) incurvated. 

 The ventral fins were trifurcated : the tail rounded. 



In a prone fituation this fifh made a ftrange ap- 

 pearance,, fo is reprefented in that as well as another 

 attitude^ 



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