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but elevated, when the fi(h is alarmed and difturbs its body. 

 Found in the Indian feas. 



Lacocephai.us ; Hare Tctrodon. Abdomen acule- 

 ated; fmooth body, and prominent (lioulders; length twelve 

 inches ; tliick in front ; hinder parts tapering fuddenly to- 

 wards the tail ; eolonr above yellowilh-brown, beneath 

 wKitilh with a filvcr)- cafl ; acrofs the back marked with 

 flioit, black, or dark-brown bars, and over the fides with 

 many, fcattered, round, blackilh fpots ; fides and abdomen 

 befet with radiated fpines ; fins fmall, and tail (lightly 

 rounded. Found in the Indian and American feas ; and 

 ftraying into northern latitudes, are taken about the Britifh 

 coaits. This filh has the power of inflating the abdomen 

 to a lai-ge fize ; and derives its name from the refemblance 

 of its head to that of a hare. 



LiN'EATUS. With brown and pale bands ; length ten 

 or twelve inches, fquaie fiiape ; and wlien inflated, like the 

 lall ; body befet with fmall fpines ; colour grey on the ab- 

 domen, with longitudinal, deep-brown llreaks ; fins and 

 tail as in the laft fpecies. Found in tlie Indian and Ame- 

 rican feas, and alfo in the river Nile. 



Electricus. With red, green, and white fpots ; above 

 brown, and beneath fea-grcen ; yellow at the fides, and 

 green fins ; length feven or eight inches ; eyes large, with 

 red circles. Found in the Indian and American feas, among 

 coral rocks ; and when touched with the hand, affedting it 

 vfith an elettric or galvanic fhock. 



OcELLATU.s. Ocellatcd on the fhouldcr-band • length 

 fiK or eight inches ; thick, ovate fhape, contracting towards 

 the tail ; colour deep green above, paler on the lides and ab- 

 domen, which are whitifh ; acrofs the middle of the back, as 

 far as each peftoral fin, a broad black crefcent, edged with 

 yellow ; dorfal fin fituated on a round black fpot with yellow 

 edges ; lateral line from beneath the eyes to the tail, which 

 is fmall and roundilh ; under parts befet with many fpines. 

 Found in the Indian feas and adjoining rivers, particularly 

 thofe of China and Japan ; very poifonous in its nature, and 

 it is prohibited to be eaten under very fevere penalties by 

 the emperor of Japan. 



Spengleri. Head bearded with many cirri ; length- 

 ened (hape ; above brown-coloured, with roundifh deep 

 brown fpots ; abdomen tumid, whitifli, and befet with 

 fmall fpines ; with cirri or foft prominences difperfed about 

 the upper parts of the body. Found m the Indian feas, 

 ten or twelve inches in length 



Hankenii. With lower jaw longer than the upper ; 

 length eight or ten inches ; like the former in general ap- 

 pearance ; above brown-coloured, with fmall whitilh clouds 

 or fpots ; beneath whitilh, with fmall fpines. Found in 

 the Indian feas. 



Oblokgus. Oblong, with equal jaws ; length fix inches ; 

 lengthened fliape ; colour whitilh, with grey back, marked 

 by many femi-decurrent brown bands ; fins and tail cinere- 

 ous ; two lateral lines, one near the back, the other near 

 the abdomen. Found in the Indian feas. 



RosTRATUS ; Snouted Tetrodon. Both jaws elongated 

 to the beak ; length a few inches ; oblong-ovate (hape, con- 

 trafting towards the mouth and tail ; fnoiit lengthened and 

 (lightly tubular; colour bluei(h-brown, beneath whiti(h ; 

 fore-part of the abdomen befet with fpines, few over the 

 back; fins brown. Found in the Indian feas. 



La;viGATUs; Smooth Tetrodon. With the abdomen 

 aculeated m front ; a large fpecies ; blueilh above, with two 

 white ftnpes on each Me ; under parts white ; from the 

 mouth to the end of the pectoral fins aculeated ; the other 

 parts being fmooth. Found in the American feas. 



HlSi»lDUS. Entirely hifpid, with briftly papilla: ; length 



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two feet ; (hape, when inflated, like that of T. lagocephalus ; 

 colour whiti(h ; upper parts marked acrofs the back by three 

 or four femi-decurrent brown bands ; whole body befet 

 with fmall fpines. Found in the Mediterranean and Indian 

 feas. Small remains of this fpecies are faid to occur among 

 the petrifadlions of mount Bolca near Verona. 



MoLA. Unarmed, (harp, comprefTed, rounded ; a very 

 fliort rounded tail-; dorfal fin annexed to the anal, with oval 

 fpiracles. (See SuN-i^j/Zi. ) Dr. Shaw has made a diftifidt 

 genus of the fun-fi(h under the r.ame of cephalut, the cha- 

 rafters of which are, that the jaws are bony, and body ter- 

 minating abruptly, fo as to refemble the head of a fi(h. 

 This genus comprehends the mola, or (hort fun-nih; the ob- 

 long fun-filh, with truncated body, or oblong diodon of 

 Pennant (fee SuN-F//Zi) ; the variegated, with whitifn un- 

 dulations and fpots ; and the Pallafian C. or filvery fun-nili, 

 with browniih back, and fpiny carinated abdomen. The 

 mola, or ihort fun-fi.{h, is a native of the European feas. 

 Its general colour is brown, with a (ilvery caft on the iides 

 and abdomen ; the (Idn rough ; the peAoral fins fmall, 

 rounded, and placed horizontally ; the dorfal and anal fins 

 placed oppofite, and of a lengthened (hape, with rounded 

 tips continued into the tail-fin. This fiih is fometimes leen 

 lying on its fide, on the furface of the water, when it may 

 be eailly taken. In the Northern feas it arrives at a vail 

 fize, of the length of eight or even ten feet, and 500 pounds 

 in weight : it is fuppofed to feed principally on (hell-filh, 

 and in the night it is faid to exhibit a high degree of phof- 

 phoric fplendour. 



Ot this there is a variety, viz. the iruncaius, unarmed, 

 fmooth, comprefled, oblong, with a very fhort tail, the 

 dorfal and anal fins annexed, with lunated fpiracles. This 

 is the oblong fun-fi(h of Pennant. 



Stellatus ; Spherical Grey Tetrodon, V/hiti(h be- 

 neath, with the body befet with radiated fpines : the tetro- 

 don etoile of Cepede. Length twelve or fourteen inches ; 

 (hape, when inflated, nearly fpherical ; colour greenilli, 

 deeper on the back, marked with duflcy fpecks ; under 

 parts whitiiTi ; vent furrounded by a black circle ; whole 

 body covered with fmall fteUated or radiated fpines ; dorfal 

 fin rounded at the tip, and attached at the bafe by a kind 

 of footflalk ; tail oval. Found in the Indian feas. Shaw. 



FuNCTATUS ; Spherical Brown Tetrodon. With black 

 fpecks, whiti(h abdomen, and very narrow dorfal fin : the 

 tetrodon pointelle of Cepede. Refembling the former. 

 Found in the Indian feas. Shaw. 



Meleagris ; Pintado Tetrodon. Brown, fpeckled with 

 white. Found in the Indian feas, and when taken, making 

 a kind of grunting noife, like feveral others of this and 

 neighbouring genera. 



TETSCHIN, or Tetzim, or Diet/chin, in Geography, 

 a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leitmeritz, on the 

 river Elbe; 15 miles N. of Leitmeritz. N. lat. 50° 46'. 

 E. long. 14° 17'. 



TETSI, a town of Thibet ; 27 miles E. of Lada. 



TETT, a place now in ruins, fituated to the fouth of 

 Azamore, on the northern extremity of the bay of Maza- 

 gen, in the empire of Morocco ; the name fignifies in 

 Arabic Titus, and is therefore fuppofed to denominate the 

 ruins of Titus, founded by the Carthaginians. 



TETTER, a difeafe among animals, which is of the 

 ring-worm kind, and which runs or fpreads itfelf upon the 

 ftin in different direftions, whence probably it has received 

 the name. It attacks different parts, but is mofl commonly 

 met with on and about the rump, not unfrequently running 

 down upon the joints of the tail for fomc diftance. 



It is of a fcabby itchy nature and appearance, and when 



neglcdledj 



