Clafs 1V. OG mas CaS ( 20% 
Genus XXVI, Deep body. 
Very minute fecales. 
Setaceous teeth on the tongue only. 
One long dorfal fin. Opan, 
ee ihe a ies 3 
Opah, or King-Fith. Péil, Tranf: Abridg. vol. xi. 879. tab. Ve 
E have only four inftances of this fifh being 
taken in our feas, each of them in the 
North, viz. twice off Scotland*, once off Northum- 
berland, and once in Filey-Bay, York/bire. This laft 
was caught about two years ago, and exhibited as 
a fhew at Scarborough. 
It is of that genus which Linneus diftinguifhes by 
the name of Chetodon, from its briftly teeth, and 
is faid to be very common on the coaft of Guinea. 
It is well defcribed by an anonymous writer in 
the Londen Magazine for Offober, 1767, which we 
fhall borrow, as the account is confirmed to us by Mr. 
Travis, who had an opportunity of examining one 
of the fame fpecies. 
Newcafile, Sept. 12. On Saturday \aft was thrown 
upon the fands at Blyth, a very rare and beautiful 
fith, weighing between feventy and eighty pounds**, 
* The fith engraved by Sir Robert Sibbald, Hi/?. Scot. tab. 6. 
and thus defcribed, is of this kind. Pié/cis maculis aureis a/per- 
Jus non feriptus, paleae: 42 longus. 
** That defcribed in the Philofe phical Tranfactions weighed 
eighty-two pounds, 5 ace 
2 ape 
