Class IV. LOCH E. 23^ 



The mouth is fmall, placed beneath, and has no 

 teeth : on the upper mandible are fix fmall beards, 

 one at each corner of the mouth, and four at the 

 end of the nofe. 



The dorfal fin confifts of eight rays -, the pec- 

 toral of eleven ; the ventral of feven -, the anal of 

 fix: the tail is broad, and hasr fixteen or feventeea 

 rays. 



The body is fmooth and llippery, and almoft of Color, 

 the fame thicknefs : the color of the head, back, 

 and fides, is in fome white, in others of a dirty 

 yellow, very elegantly marked with large fpots, 

 confiding of numberlefs minute black fpecks : the 

 pedloral, dorfal, and caudal fins are alfo fpotted : 

 the belly and ventral fins of a pure white : the tail 

 broad, and a little rounded. 



Branch!- 



