138 T E U T H Y S. 



i6j. Armed.. §• CatapliraftuSj Lhi. 506. — Catefiy/m. 19, fig. i. 



C "With the head, fome of the fore part, and all the upper part, co- 

 vered with fmooth angular boney plates : no teeth : the fides, 

 to the tail, covered with plates placed perpendicularly, the middle of 

 each is notched, and in the middle of the notch is a Iharp hook ; each of 

 thefe bones lap over one another : tail round : belly foft and membra- 

 nous : pefloral fins confift of only a ftrong bone, ferrated on each fide : 

 the dorfal fin formed in like manner, b\n ferrated only on the upper 

 fide J placed in a focketj and capable of being erefted or depreffed at 

 pleafure : the other fins formed like thofe of other fiihes. Length ten 

 inches. 

 Place. TYixz fingular fifh was taken off New England, and depofited in Sir 



Hans Shane's Mu/eum. 



XXXV; TEU- Head a little truncated. 



Six branchiofl:egous rays. 

 Single row of teeth, of the fame length,, placed clofely.; 



LlNNiEUS, 



35- Tanc. Catejbj, ii. 10. — T. Hepatus, Lin. 507. 



'X' Of a rhomboid form : fmall proje6ting mouth : no teeth : dorla 

 fin fpiny, extending from the top of the head almoft to the 

 tail t head, covers of the gills, and whole body, covered with large 

 fcales. Every part of the fifh is of a fine deep blue, but moft brilliant 

 on the fins ; tail broad and lunated. Length is fometimes twenty inches. 

 Near the tail, on each fide, is a very ftrong and fliarp-pointed bone,, 

 capable of being ereded at pleafure 3 on the approach of the Barracuda^ 

 ox any fifb of prey^ it fets it up as a protedioa. . 



