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(/) P^&'^9^* Signior Scilla calls this Dog^Fifh, Pefce 
Vacca ( the Cow-Ftjh. } It being defcribed by no Na- 
turalift ( that I know ofF ) before him, its hereunto 
annexed from our Authors Draughts, fome of which, 
for their great exadnefs and curiofity, it was thought 
£t to Copy. Vide Fig, 
An Explication of the [aid Figures in the Plate^ 
tvith further Remark^ thereon^ By another 
Fellow of the Royal Society. 
Pig' /"T^V^ ^ Head of the Pefce Facca, drawn 
1 from the Life, with the Teeth in both 
Jaws. It feems to be of the long cartilagineous kind, 
a- kin to the Dogs or Hound Fiflies. 
Fig, X, 3, 4, 5, 6. The Teeth of the fame out of 
their dockets. Thefe are found petrified in Beds up and 
down the Ifland of Maltay with thofe of Dog-fiJheSi 
Sharks., Pefce Aquila^ &c. 
Fig, 7. A Jaw of a Filhcall'd Dentex ^wixh the round 
grinders ; the like Denies Molares are obferved and 
drawn by the Author in the Jaws of other Fiflies, as 
the Aurata and Sargus^ with feveral Bufonits lying by ^ 
them. Thefe convex ofleous Tubercules are found 
commonly petrified in Malta^ and are call'd there Ser» 
fenfs Eyes. They are of the fame kind with our En- 
glilh Bufonites or Toad fl ones, which Dr. Met ret firft de- 
clared to be the round Jaw Teeth of the Lupus Marinus 
or WolfFifh of Schonfeld. See Mr. Rays Travels, p.^zi. 
Thefe Bufonits are properly call'd by Mr. Lhwyd, Ich- 
thyodentes Scutellati. Philofoph. TranfaU, N. 200. p. 75- u 
Fig. 19. 
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