PLATE XLIII. 
ners. Worms of the testaceous tribes, and the smaller kinds of 
fish, are the principal food of this species. 
Our specimen of the Basse has nine sharp spinous rays in the 
first dorsal fin : and fourteen soft rays in the second one : in the 
pectoral fin are eighteen rays : ventral six ; anal fourteen : and caudal 
twenty-one. 
