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FATHER. LASHER. Class IV, 



fpines : on the throat are a number of fhort white 

 beards. 



The teeth are very minute, Htuated in the jaws. 



The body is odlagonal, and covered with a 

 number of ftrong bony crufts, divided into feverai 

 com'partments, the ends of which projed into a 

 fharp point, and form feverai echinated lines along 

 the back and fides from the head to the talL 



The firft dorfal fin confifts of fix fpiny rays : the 

 fecond is placed juft behind the firft, and confifts 

 of feven foft rays. 



The pedoral fins are broad and rounded, and 

 are compofed of fifteen rays. 



99. Father- Scorpios. O-vid. Halieut. 116. 

 LASHER. La Scorpene. Belon, 242. 



Scorpius marinus, Waelkuke, 

 Buloffe, Schorp-£rche. 

 Schone-uelde^ 6j. tab. 6. 

 Scorpsnse Belonii fimilis Cor- 

 ?iub, Father-lafher. WiL 

 Icth. 138. Rait fyn pifc, 

 145. Scorpius virginianus. 

 J4em. 142. Wil. Icth. 



App. 25.. 

 Cottus fcorpius. C. capite 

 fpinis pluribus, maxilla fu- 

 pericre paulo longiore. Lin, 



M' 452- 



Rot-iimpa, Skrabba, Skialry" 

 ta. Faun. Suec. No. 323. 



Ulke. Crantz. Greenhl, 95. 

 Grono<v. Zooph. No. 268. 



Sea Scorpion. Ed^. 284. 



THIS fifh is not uncommon on the rocky coafts 

 of this ifland : it lurks under ftones, and* will 

 take a bait. 

 DfiscRip, It does not grow to a large fize, feldom exceed- 

 ing (as far as we have feen in the fpecimens that 

 are taken on our fliores) eight orninc inches. 



The 



