Color. 
238 iy -@; €) By B Clafs IV, 
The mouth is {mall, placed beneath, and has na 
teeth: on the upper mandible are fix {mall beards, 
one at each corner of the mouth, and four at the 
end of the nofe. 
The dorfal fin confifts of eiokt rays; the pectoral 
of eleven; the ventral of feven; the anal of fix: 
the tail is broad, and has fixteen or feventeen 
rays. 
The body is fmooth and flippery, and almoft of 
the fame thicknefs: the color of the head, back, 
and fides, is in fome white, in others of a dirty yel- 
low, very elegantly marked with large fpots, con- 
fifting of numberlefs minute black fpecks : the pec- 
toral, dorfal, and caudal fins are alfo {potted : the 
belly and ventral fins of a pure white : the tail broad, 
and a little rounded. 
Genus 
