204 FAUNULA OF CHINA. 



Avhitifli fpines. It can blow itfelf up into the form of a round 

 ball. 

 History. THis,antl fome Other fpecies of the fame genus, are frequent in 



the Chinefe and 'Japanefe feas- This fpecimen was taken in the 

 Canton river. The effedts of eating it is dreadful ; if eaten entire, 

 it is the moft fatal of poifons, and even when dreffed according to 

 art, has had mortal confequences ; yet fuch is the rage of epi- 

 curifm, that many people will not forbear this tempting viand. 

 It is often ufed by fuch who in defpair wi(h to remove them- 

 felves into the other world. The Chinefe boil with it a branch of 

 the IlUcium anifatum,Koemp. Amcen. tab. 885, in order to fecurethe 

 effeds. Such is the ftrange but true hiftory of this deadly fifh. 



BONEYFISHES. 



Ai'oDAL. Apodal. 



Trichiurus. — Lepturus, Brown. Jam. p. 444. tab. xlviii. f. 3. 

 Seb. Mus. iii. tab. xxxiii. 



Thoracic. THORACIC. 



GoBius.— Niger, Bloch. ii. p. 5. tab. xxxvhi. Br. Zool. iii. N* 95, 

 found alfo on the coaft of Britain. 

 Eleotris, OJbecky ii. p. 332, 

 Anguillaris, Gmel. Lin. 1201. 

 Pedtiniroftris, OJbeck, ii. p. 332. 



C'l.^TODON. — Pinnatus, Seb. Mus. iii. tab. xxv. fig. 15. 

 Argenteus, Gfnel. Lin. 1242. 



Sparus. 



