Class IV. GATTORUG IN. 



can ered or deprefs at pleafure. On the top of the 

 head, between the eyes, is a triangular lump point- 

 ing backwards, and red about its edges. 



The fkin at the corner of the upper jaw is loofe, 

 and projedls. 



From the hind part of the head, almoft to the 

 tail, extends the dorfal fin : the ventral fin is fmall : 

 the vent is placed under the ends of the peroral 

 fins. 



The body is fmooth and flippery : the color 

 brown, and fpotted. 



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Scorpioides. RQ-ndd. 204. 



Gefnn pifc. 847. 

 Gattorugine Venetiis. Wil. 



Icth. 132. Raii/yn. pifc. 72. 

 Blennlus pinnulis duabus ad 



oculos, pinna ani ofiiculo- ^i. Gat to- 

 rum viginti trium. Arted. rugin. 

 fynon. 44. 

 Ble-nnius Gattorugine. Lin. 

 fyfi, 442. 



THIS curious kiad was difcovered to be a Bri- 

 tijh fifh on the Anglefea coaft. 



Its length was feven inches and an half: the body 

 was fmooth, and comp^-efiTed on the fides : the belly 

 a little prominent : the vent fituated as in the pre- 

 ceding fifh. 



The teeth flender, almoft fetaceous, and very 

 clofe fet : between the eyes was a fmall hollow, and 

 above each, juft on the fummit, was a narrow 

 loofe membrane, trifurcated at the top, which dif- 

 tinguifiies this from all other fpecies. 



The 



Place, 



Descrip. 



