34 SOLDIER LORICARIA. 



sharp hook, each plate lapping over the other st 

 little : pectoral fins said to consist of only a strong 

 bone, serrated on each side : dorsal fin formed in a 

 similar manner, but serrated only on the upper 

 side ; placed in a socket, and capable of being 

 erected or depressed at pleasure : colour of the 

 whole animal dull brown. Native of the American 

 seas. 



SOLDIER LORICARIA. 



Loricaria Callichthys. L. fusca, capitc rutundato deprcsso, 



sqvamis utrinque ordine dupKci, cauda rotunda! a. 

 Brown Loricaria, with depressed, rounded head, double row 



of scales on each side, and rounded tail. 

 Silurus Callichthys. 5. pinna dorsali pvstica uniradiata, squamis 



ordine dupliti, cirris quatuor* Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 506. 

 Cataphractus Callichthys. C. capite dcpresso, ordine scutorum 



dupUci. Block, t. 377. f. 1. 



THIS remarkable species grows to the length of 

 ten or twelve inches, and is of a dusky brown 

 colour throughout, with a tinge of reddish or 

 yellowish brown on the fins and under parts : the 

 head is short, flat, rounded and of a bony hardness ; 

 and on each side is a very strong and thick conical 

 process or blunt spine : the sides of the body are 

 mailed by large strong scales or plates in a double 

 series, to the number of about thirty on each side : 

 they are serrated on the edges, and by their dis- 

 position form a furrow along the middle of each 

 side, resembling a lateral line : the back is marked 

 by a similar furrow : the abdomen is flat : the fins 



