PLAft 62 
PLATE CXVUI. 
TRTGLA LYRA. 
FJPER. 
**• PISCES THORACIC!. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head large, mailed and marked, with rough lines. Eyes large, round, 
placed vertically. Mouth large. Palate and jaws armed with sharp teeth. 
Nostrils double. Gill-cover, a single piece, radiated and spined. 
Seven rays in the gill-membrane. Body wedge-shaped, and covered 
with small scales. Back straight, with a longitudinal groove serrated 
on the margins. Lateral line nearer the back, and straight. Abdo- 
men thick. Ventral and pectoral fin large, with articulated appen- 
dages before them. 
' SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Appendages three : nostrils tubular. 
% 
Tricla Lyra ; digitis ternis, naribus tubulosis. Gmel. Linn, 
Sj/st. Nat. T. l.p.S. 1342. sp. 2. 
Trigla rostro longo diacantho, naribus tubulosis. Art. Gen. 46. 
sj/n. 74. 
