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Caper, pefce Baleftra, Sahian-Pifi, p. zoj .•^GrevJ' s Mu/eum, 113. 



With a deep body : firft dorfal fin has three ftrong fpiny rays ; 

 the firft the longeft j the third remote ; that and the fecond very 

 fhort. Second dorfal fin and anal placed oppofite ; the rays fofi: ; the 

 fcales covered with fmall tubera, and difpofed in a cancellated or lattice 

 form : tail even at the end. 



This fpecies is common to the Mediterranean fea, and thofe about 

 Bermudas. It is called at Rome, Baleftra, or the Crofsbow. No force 

 can bring down the firft fpine of the dorfal fin j but on touching the 

 foremoft and left, they all three drop fuddenly together, as a crofsbow 

 is let off by the pulling of the trigger. The fame circumftance at- 

 tends other fifties of this genus. 



Ten flender teeth, a linear aperture. 

 Body covered with a hard integument. 

 No ventral fins. Linnaeus. 



74. Balestra. 



Placb» 



X. OSTRACION, 



STR. "With a great head r nofe ftoping andpig-like : noftrils placed 75. Sh-agreened, 

 juft below the eyes, covered with a fmall flap : dorfal fin placed ■ 

 near the tail : anal corefpondent to it : back and fides brownifh yellow, 

 and rough like ftiagreen : belly flat, rough, and white : fides, near the , 

 tail fmooth. 



Taken off the coaft of iW'K; jE«^/^k^. Mrs. Jnne Blackburn. Place. 



£r. Zco/. iii. 129. Genus IX. by miftake, Diodom». 

 Tetrodon Isvigatus, Z,/«. 411, 



XI.TETRODON. 

 •^6. Prickly^ 



Above blueifti, marked with two whitifti ftripes on each fide : 

 belly white, and aculeated as far as the pe£toral fins.. 

 Inhabits the coaft of South C&roUna. Dodlor Garden. Mifnamed Pi>aciw 



by LiNN.<Eus. 



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