28a 



SAPPHIRINE GURNARD. Class IV. 



The noftrils very minute : the eyes large. 



The lower jaw much fhorter than the upper: 

 the teeth in both very minute. 



The firit dorfal fin confifted of nine very (Irong 

 fharp fpines, the fccond of Wiich is the longeft; the 

 fecond fin begins juft behind the firft, and confifts 

 of eighteen fofc rays : the pectoral fins were long, 

 tind had twelve branched rays \ the ventral fins 

 fix, very (Irong and thick : the anal eighteen, the 

 firil Ipiny : the tail fmall, in proportion to the fize 

 of the fiih, and forked. 



The back on each fide the dorfal fin was armed 

 with a fet of ftrong and very large fpines, pointing 

 towards the tail like the teeth of a faw. 



The fcales were fmall, but very hard and rough : 

 the lateral line bent a "little at its beginning, that 

 went ftrait to the tail, and was almoll fmooth. 



£40. Sapphi- 



RINE. 



Hirundo JUro'v. The Tub- 

 iiili, Cornub. Wil Icth. 280. 

 Raii fyn. pi/c. 88. 



Trigla capite aculeate, ap- 

 pendicibus utrinqae tribus 

 ad pinnas peclorales. Artcd, 

 fynon. 73. 



Trigla hirundo. Tr. digitis 

 ternis, linea lateral! acu- 

 leata. Lin, fyji. /i.gy, 



Knorrhane, Knoding, Knot, 

 Smed. faun, Susc, ■ No. 

 340- 



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HIS fpecies is of a more flender form than 

 the preceding. 

 The pupil of the eye is green : on the inner cor- 

 ner 



