ELECTRIC SILURE. 1? 



in front : mouth furnished with six long beards, 

 two on the upper,- and four on the lower lip : body 

 elegantly banded with numerous transverse dusky 

 stripes placed in a ternate manner : fins pale, with 

 the rays barred with black: dorsal unarmed and 

 Situated near the middle of the back : tail sharply 

 forked* Native of the Indian and South- American 

 rivers. 



ELECTRIC SILURE. 



Silurus Electrlcus. S. cinerascens, versus cdudam fnacufo nigri- 



cantibus varius, pinna dorsali imica adiposa, cirris sex, 

 Subcinereous Silure, variegated towards the tail with blackish 



spots, with single, adipose dorsal fin, and six beards. 

 Silurus electricus. -S. pinna dorsali wiica adiposa, cirris sex. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1354. Brouss. act. Paris, ann. 



1782. 



LENGTH about twenty inches : head arid fore-parts 

 Very broad and depressed : on the upper lip two 

 cirri ; on the lower four : teeth small and numerous. 

 Native of the African rivers : observed by Forskal 

 in the Nile : possesses a degree of electric or gal- 

 vanic power, but in a much slighter degree than 

 the Torpedo. Forskal in his Fauna Arablca im- 

 properly names it Raja Torpedo. 



V. v. p. i. 



