the Ophidium barbatum. 499 
fame reafon, that author has placed among the Jugulares in his 
Fauna Suecica , the fpecies of which we are now fpeaking. 
This fifh is alfo very different from the Sea [nail defended by 
WILLOUGHBY and petiver, which is the Cyclopterin Upparis 
linn, though the fynonymy of petiver has been accepted 
by gronovius as being the Ophidium imberbe L 
linne, in the tenth edition of his 'Syftema, mentions a third 
fpecies of Ophidium , which he calls Macrophthalmum ; but 
afterwards difeovered that this fpecies belonged to the genus 
of Cepola . It is another fpecies of this genus which otho 
f abricius has lately deferibed in his Fauna Groenlandica , under 
the denomination of Ophidium viride . There are two other 
fifties, of which gronovius made anew genus, afiigning to it 
the name * of Majlacembelus , which comes near to the genus of 
Ophidium , though I am perfuaded it conftitutes a different 
one by the prefence of the aculei on the back. I fliall now 
proceed to give a defeription of that fpecies of which I am 
particularly treating, which I have written in Latin for the 
fake of perfpicuity. 
DE SCRIP TIO 
O P H I D I I BARBATI linn. 
B. 7. D. 1 24. P. 20. V. o. A. 1 1 5. C. — — . 
CAPUT comprefliim, fub-acutum, nudum, cute cornmuni 
laxe tedium. 
Ridius amplus. 
Mandibula fuperior duplicata, inferiore paulo Ion- 
gior. 
♦ The fifh mentioned by Mr. pennant, in the Britifli Zoology, tom. III. 
append, p. 346. and engraved in the tab. 93. tom. II. under the name of Ophidium. 
imberbe linn, is a fpecies of Mur ana. 
M m m 2 
Labia 
