■ftlo SAPPH1RINE GURNARD. Class IV, 



The noftrils very minute : the eyes large. 



The lower jaw much fhorter than the upper: 

 the teeth in both very minute. 



The firft dorfal fin confifted of nine Very ftrdng 

 fharp fpines^ the fecond of which is the longeft; the 

 fecond fin begins juft behind the firft, and confifts 

 of eighteen foft rays : the pectoral fins Were long, 

 and had twelve branched rays •, the ventral fins 

 fix, very ftrong and thick : the anal eighteen, the 

 firft fpiny. fc the tail fmall, in proportion to the fize 

 of the fifh, and forked. 



The back on each fide the dorfal fin. was armed 

 With a fet of ftrong and very large fpines, pointing 

 towards the tail like the teeth of a faw. 



The fcales were finally but very hard and rough t 

 the lateral line bent a little at its beginning, that 

 went ftrait to the tail, and was almoft fmooth. 



jloo SAfrfrHi- T-iirundo Aldrov. The Tub- Trigla hirundo. Tr. digitis 



rine, £&> Cornub. Wil, Icth.zSd. ternis, linea laterali acii* 



Rati fyn. pifc. 88. leata. Lin. fyft. 497. 



Trigla capite aculeato, ap* Knorrhane, Knoding, Knot, 



pendicibus utriftque tribus Smed. Faun, Suec. No. 



ad pinnas pe&orales. Arted. 340. 

 fynon. 73. 



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HIS fpecies is of a more flender form than 

 the preceding. 

 The pupil of the eye is green : on the inner Cor^ 



ner 



