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studded with, minute spines. There are several rudimentary 
rays at the extremity of the tail. Firm papillary warts along 
the abdominal margin. The lateral line is armed as in T. tmnia, 
and is confluent with that of the other side beneath the end of 
the tail: a stronger spine indicates the point of junction. The 
vent is situated somewhat behind the middle of the length. 
Silvery, with two blackish spots; fins reddish; the anterior spot 
is situated at the commencement of the second fourth part of 
the whole length of the fish, the posterior being near the 
middle. 
The above characters have been taken from the excellent 
accounts of Professor Reinhardt and Nilsson; but as the latter 
gives a comparative description of what he supposes a nearly 
allied, but, as he judges, a different species, which perhaps may 
more closely resemble the fish described by Dr. Fleming, it is 
thought best to add the description given by the last-named 
Swedish naturalist. 
The example described was sent to Lund from Tromso, by 
Professor Lilljeborg, and measured six feet in length from the 
extremity of the snout to the root of the tail; and from the 
former also to the hindmost border of the gill-cover nine 
inches; from thence to the vent forty inches. Behind the 
head the depth was eight inches, which increased to ten inches 
above the pectoral fins, and to fourteen inches at thirty-four 
inches from the snout, which was the greatest, and after which 
it suddenly slopes away backward, and at the distance of eight 
inches from the caudal fin it was only four inches ; close in front 
of the tail it w'as only four lines and a half. The body is 
thickest along the middle of the sides, and thin along the back 
and belly; gill openings wide; the body covered with a rough 
and firm skin, which is studded with rough protuberances, 
numbering from twelve to fourteen to the inch. On the sides 
of the back these are large and more distantly placed, and along 
the sides of the lower edge of the body they form high and 
hard conical warts. The lateral line at first passes up to the 
side of the neck, and then is bent down behind the pectoral 
fin; behind this it is straight, but at last drops nearer to the 
lower border, which it joins under the root of the tail. It is 
formed of a row of small flat oblong and rough plates, each 
having a small spine at its middle, directed forward; and at the 
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