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FiSHEF. 



Jaculator. 



HuRs Ray. 



(Great Tunny. 



Zoophytes. 



•MALAYAN ISLES. 



The wonders among the fillies are the Chatodon Rqfiralus, or 

 Jaculator, Phil. Tranf. vol. liv. 89. tab. 9.; the Sciana, vol. Ivi. 

 186. tab. 8. ; and the Sparur. Infidiator of Pallas, Spicil fafc. 

 viii. 41. tab. 5. %. i-; all remarkable for rheir method of laying 

 in wait for infeds, and by fponting out of their months a drop 

 of water, difable the prey from getting out of their reach. In Ba~ 

 tavia thefe fiflies are kept in great vafes for the amufement of 

 the gentry, by obferving the curious oeconomy bellowed on 

 them by nature for the entrapping the infed: tribe. 



The Ray, which furniflies the tuberculated Ikin called by the 

 Englijh joiners Hurs, and which is alfo ufed inftead of Shagreen, 

 is caught in thefe feas ; it is of the JVhip Ray kind ; the llender 

 long tail apterous, and befet with Ihort fpiny tubercles. Sir Jo- 

 fepb Banks had one brought to him at Batavia, but before he 

 could examine it farther, the incurious cook had prepared it for 

 the pot. 



The great Tutiny, Br. ZooL iii. N° 133, the Orcinus oi Ron- 

 deleth'.s, extends to this coaft. Bontius fays, that the Javanefe 

 name is lean Bouda, or the Horfe Fi/h. Our Burbolt, Br, ZooL iii. 

 N' 14, is found in the frefli waters of this diftant country. 



That moft curious Star FiJJj the AJlerias Echinites, with 

 twenty rays, covered with moveable fpines, like the Ecbmi, has 

 been found on the Bat avian fide of the ifland. It is finely en- 

 graven by Mr. Ellis, in the 60th table of his Zoophytes, and dc- 

 fcribed at p. 206. 



In the fame fea is found the Gorgonia Umbraculum, Ellis, 80. 



tab. 10. That gentleman has in the fame work favored us with 



numbers of the Zoophytes of the Indian feas. 1 cannot exadly 



9 afcertain 



