Clas IV. FATHER-LASHER: 179 
The teeth are very minute, fituated in the jaws. 
The body is o¢tagonal, and covered with a nur- 
ber of ftrong bony crufts, divided into feveral com- 
partments, the ends of which project into a fharp 
point, and form feveral echinated lines along the 
back and fides from the head to the tail. 
The firft dorfal fin confifts of fix fpiny rays: the 
fecond is placed juft behind the firft, and confifts of 
feven foft rays. 
The pectoral fins are broad and rounded, and are 
compofed of fifteen rays. 
Weeihe PR ATE RA SHER. 
Scorpios. Ovid. Haleut. 116. Cottus fcorpius. C. capite fpi- 
La Scorpene. Belon. 242. — nis pluribus, maxilla fuperi- 
Scorpius marinus, Waelkuke, ore paulo longiore. Lin. fy/. 
Buloffe, Schorp-fifche. Scho- 452. 
nevelde. 67. tab. 6. Rot-fimpa, Skrabba, Skialry- 
Scorpenz Belonii fimilis Cor- ta. Faun. fuec. No. 323. 
aub, Father-lather. Wil. Icth. Ulke. Crantz. Greezl. 1. gs. 
138. Raii fyn. pifes 145. Gronov. Zooph. No. 268. 
Scorpius virginianus. Jdem. Sea Scorpion. Edu. 284. 
142. Wil. Icth. App. 25. 
HIS fifth is not uncommon on the rocky coafts 
of this ifland: it lurks under ftones, and will 
take a bait. | 
It does not grow to a large fize, feldom exceeding 
_ (as far as we have feen in the fpecimens that are 
taken on our fhores) eight or nine inches. 
The head is very large, and has a moft formidable 
appearance, being armed with vaft fpines, which it 
can 
Defer, 
