WISHES. ABDOMINALES. 27-29. 10* 



27. ESOX. Pike. 



102. E. Lucim. Olive-grey with yellowish spots, belly 

 white spotted with black ; jaws depressed, nearly 

 equal. 



Pike. Brit. Zool. t. 63. Shaw Zoo/, v, t. 108. 



Body lengthened, fometimes growing to a vast size r blackisth on 

 the back ; head flattened ; upper-jaw broad, a little shorter ; lower 

 slightly turned up at the end and covered with fmall punctures: 

 iris golden, pupil bluish : teeth in the jaws alternately fixed and 

 moveable, wih 3 longitudinal rows on the palate ; dorsal anal and 

 caudal-Jim fpotted with black: dorsal-Jin 2»-rayed; pectoral 15* 

 ventral 11 j anal 18 ; tail forked, 19-rayed. 



103. E. Saurus. Blueish-green, beneath silvery : jaws 

 subulate, gaping in the middle, of equal length: above 

 and beneath 6 spurious-fins near the tail. 



Saury Pike. Br. Zoo/, t. 64. Linn. Trans. 7. p. 6c. /. 5. 



Body about 1 1 inches long, tapering like an eel ; jaws very slen- 

 der, about an inch long, of equal length, the upper-one a little in* 

 curved : pectoral and ventral-jins fmall : dorsal and anal opposite, 

 ' shallow, continued down to the tail into 6 other fmaller fins: tail 

 much forked. 



104. E. Osseus. Greenish, with pale red belly and fins, 

 covered with square long scales : jaws very long, the 

 upper longest. 



Great Gar-fish. Block t. 390. 



Taken on the Sussex Coast. Berhenhout p. 8t. 



Body 2 feet long, nearly cylindrical, covered with bony fcalea 

 difpofed in oblique lows, except on the head and gill-covers ; each 

 fcale marked into 4 triangular spaces : gill- covers pale red, radiate : 

 jaws with sharp unequal teeth along the edges, 3 fmaller-ones fuc- 

 ceeding every larger-one : eyes large ; iris yellow: Jins all with the 

 first ray doubly ferrate : back with a row of sharp fcales : dorjal-jin 

 opposite the anal and near the tail, fpotted with black, 6-rayed : 

 pectoral 11; ventral 6; anal fpotted, 5; tail rounded, fpotted, 

 »2-rayed. 



J05. E.Belone. Blue-green, beneath, silvery : jaws very 

 long and taper, the lower one longest. 



Gar Pike, Sea Needle. Br. Zool. t. 63. Donovan t. 64. 



Body 2 or 3 feet long, nearly cylindrical, taper : jaws sharp- 

 pointed, with numerous nearly equal teeth along the edges : mouth 

 purple on the inside : eyes large ; iris silvery : belly flat, bounded 

 each side by a rough line : dorsal-Jin 14-rayed, near the tail and op- 

 posite the anal; pectoral 13 ; ventral 7, the first ray fpincus ; anal 

 jg; tail much forked, 23-rayed. The bones are green when the 

 fish is boiled. 



28. ARGENTINA. Argentine. ' 

 106 A. Sphyr&na. Bright-silvery,' greenish on the back : 

 anal-fin with 9 rays. 



Pearl Argentine. Br. Zool. iii. p. 327. tab. 65. 



Body 2 or 3 inches long, compressed, nearly of equal depth : hfad 

 purplish : mouth fmall, with minute teeth : eyes large, iris silvery : 

 lateral-line in the middle, nearly straight : air-bladder shining like 

 polished silver: dorsal-Jin placed near the equilibrium ofthebody^ 

 10-rayed ; pectoral 14 j ventral 1 1 ; anal 9 ; tail forked. 



29. ATHERINA. Atherine. 

 107. A. Hespetus. Yellowish, pale-olive on the back, se- 

 mitransparen^ reticulate with lines of blaqkishdots* 



