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XXXII. LOCHE, ■^''> Ziool. ii. p. 282, Genus XXXII. 



„ Cobitis heterocllta, Lin. coo. 



157. Bear dless. ^ 



Beardkfs, {lender, with large fmooth fcales : head flat and 



fcaly : lips furnifhed with teeth : dorfal fin. placed beyond the 

 balance : that and the anal oppofite : dufliy, dewed over with pellucid 

 fpots : belly , yellowifh : tail rounded, varied with white fpots and 

 black bands j the end tranfparent. 

 Place. Inhabits Carolina. — Dodor Garden. 



158. Bearded. JSr. Zoo/, iii. N" 142. 



■p LACED here on the authority o^ Latv/on, 160. 



XXXIII AMI A. Head boney, naked, rough: the futures vifible. 



Teeth fharp, clofely fet in the jaws and palate. 

 Two nafal beards. 

 Twelve brancheollegous rays. Body fcaly, Linnaeus. 



icg, BoLB. Amia calva, Lin. ^oo. 



A With a flender body : lateral line ftrait : on the throat two fhield- 



■*"* like bones, ftriated from the center ; covers of the gills blunt and 



boney : head as if fcalped : pedloral and ventral fins of the fanae fize : 



ventral in the middle of the abdomen : tail rounded, with a black Ipot 



at the upper part of the bafe : dorfal fin extends far. 



PiACB. Inhabits Carolina. — Dodlor Garden. 



4 Head 



