PLATE CXV. 
lies in holes and the most retired places : it is of a shy and timid nature, 
and subsists on worms and insects. The spawning season is in May. 
This is a fish of no esteem for the table, being coarse and full of 
bones ; it grows only to a moderate size, a Chub of four or five 
pounds weight being very unysua). The colours vary a little accord- 
to the season of the year. 
In the specimen represented in the annexed plate the dorsal fin 
contains nine rays : pectoral twelve : ventral eight : anal ten : and 
caudal eighteen. 
