TATHEE-LASHER. 
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This species generally seeks concealment under the shelter 
ot some stone or sea-weed, from which it passes out only in 
search of prey, or to change one situation for another. The 
no spawning is probably spread oyer some distance of 
toVE fE ^ I have seen the single grains of spawn 
with the embryo within them partly developed, as if scattered 
at random in pools of the rocks. When freed from the egg 
iud/eT^ “ example by which, perhaps, we may 
ment o/Te' fishes obtain the develop- 
3ace oft^fiT «tage the 
lul Zr it. The fins 
s^rf^e fa E ^hen the whole of the 
or drLs bv rt e' 1’ “to spots 
tL ? ?E^ E ^fter distinguished. 
water and tT T live long out of the 
rain^jfoufvi moistened; but it is 
the more ^-em V ^^,^TPed in fresh-water; a circumstance 
where the fr E^^^^ T f'-^finently in places 
distributed iu fte'luT Te„',o"“®'' ’* “ 
limits of tEe Tt-'f e t i i and besides the extreme 
i::SnS£r”““ 
hanging from the skm^SoyrthTeyS* Tde" 
th't d ' ‘r tefot thT' On s:::" 
“tf “t; r. f r™” 
the skin which the fi E • ^ '^^vered with 
me sKin, wnicli the fish can m nart witErE.o™. j 
over airain The .e -i witfidiaw, and cover it 
over again. ihe mouth wide, with teeth in tE^ • j 
palate. The body rounded near the head .be d,; pr tXr.” 
taperrng toward, the tail, a row of low epi„ee aloVg the course’ 
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