178 see Pe) 9G Ge ap Clafs IV. 
The eyes are very fmall: the irides yellow: the 
_teeth very minute, placed in the jaws and the root 
‘of the mouth. 
The body grows flender towards the tail, and is 
very {mooth. | 
The firft dorfal fin confitts of fix rays, the fecond 
of feventeen: the pectoral fins are round, and pret- 
tily {calloped at their edges, and are compofed of 
thirteen rays; the ventral of only four; the anal 
of thirteen; the tail of twelve, and 1s rounded at 
the end. | 
The color of this fifh is as difagreeable as its 
form, being dufky, mixed with a dirty yellow : 
the belly whitih. 
Teo Phe “Bs LO! GaGa 
Cataphractus, Stein-bicker, | Cottus Cataphraétus. C. lori- 
Miiller, ‘Turfs-bull. Schone- catus, roftro verrucofo 2 bi- 
velde. 30. tab. 3. fidis, capite fubtus cirrofo. 
Cataphrattus Schoneveldit Sep- Lin. fyft. 451. 
tentr. Anglis a Pogge. Wil. Botn-mus. Faun. fuec. No. 324. 
Tcth. 211. Raii fyn. pife. 77. Seb. Muf. ui. tab. 28. Gronov. 
Cottus cirris plurimis corpore § Zooph. No. 271. 
ottagono. Arted. fynon. 77- 
HE pogge is very common on moft of the 
Britifh coatts. 
Tt feldom exceeds five inches and an half in length, 
and even feldom arrives. at that fize. 
The head is large, bony, and very rugged: the end 
of the nofe is armed with four fhort upright fpines . 
on the throat are a number of fhort white beards. 
The 
