. 158 LESSER HAKE. Cheam 
Their head is flat and broad; the mouth very 
wide; the teeth very long and fharp, particularly 
thofe of the lower jaw. 
The firft dorfal fin is fmall, confifting of nine rays; 
the fecond reaches from the bafe of the former al- 
moft to the tail, and is compofed of forty rays, of 
which the laft are the higheft; the pectoral fins have 
about twelve, the ventral feven; the anal thirty- 
nine. 
The tail is almoft even at the end. 
A The LES SE, RY ae ae 
Galee, claria marina. Belz. Tincamarina. Alar. Wil. Iccth. 
126. 205. Raii yn. pife. 75. 
Phycis. Rondel. 186. Ge/ner Phycis. Arted. fynon. App. iii. 
pie: 718. Blennius Phycis. Liz. /y?. 442. 
HIS is the fifh towhich Rowdeletius gives the 
name of Phycis, borrowing it from Arifotle 
and Pliny, who have not fo fufficiently characterized 
it, as to enable us to judge what fpecies they in- 
tended. It is found in the Mediterranean more fre- 
quently than in our feas, and we believe is the fifh 
mentioned by Mr. Armftrong, and Doktor Cleghorn™, 
in their Hiftories of Menorca, under the name of © 
Molio, Mollera, and Molle. It is known on the 
coaft of Cornwall by the name of ‘the greater forked 
beard **, where it wes firft difcovered "by y Mr. Fage. 
* Armftrong, 161. Chehore. 43- 
¥**® Barkus major Cornubienfis cirris bifurcatis : the great forked 
beard. Mr. Fago. Rait fyn. pife. 103. fig. 7+ 
We 
