76 ANGEL FISH. Chf&IVv. 
The tongue is large; the eyes fmall; the pupil — 
- of a pale green; the irides white, fpotted with 
brown: behind each eye is a femilunar orifice. 
The back is of a pale afh-color, and very rough; 
along the middle is a prickly tuberculated line : the 
belly i is white and {mooth. | 
The pectoral fins are very large, and extend hori- 
zontally from the body to a great diftance; they 
have fome refemblance to wings, fo writers have 
given this the name it bears in this work. 
The ventral fins are placed in the fame manner, 
and the double penis is placed in them, which forms 
another character of the males in this and the laft 
genus. 
The tail is bifurcated, the upper lobe rather the 
longeft: not very remote from the end on the back 
are two fins. 
II. The 
