W S H A D. Class IV. 



The under jaw is rather longer than the upper : 

 the teeth very minute. 



The dorfal fin is placed very near the centre, is 

 fmall, and the middle rays are the longer! : the 

 peroral and ventral fins are fmall : the Tail vaflly 

 forked : the belly extremely fliarp, and moll ftrong- 

 ly ferrated. 



The back is of a dufky blue : above the giljs 

 begins a line of dark fpots, which mark the upper 

 part of the back on each fide j the number of thefe 

 fpots is uncertain in different fifh 3 from four tQ 

 ten. 



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