‘U 
kock cook. 
small-mouthed M'RASa. 
J^aorux exoleius, Llnr^rs 
latter with a coloured plate, in the 
second volume of the Magazine of 
. Zoology. 
Acantkolahrus exoletux, Ouvie^l Ytkrtll; Bn, Fiahes, vol. i, 
Centrolahrus exoleius, o,, g,. ^ 
king2L,^and fn L-elancl! and ifTt a 
from its habits, which ao-ain ar ’ proceeds 
of its mouth, that prevents it fr ^7 the small size 
-ployed in hshinj at^the^sttZsthle^t 
found; for it seems ready to devour its 
times .found in crab-pots, which it has is some- 
baits suspended the/e. As the erSr/l 
in the stormy season of the year this fillJY T 
only .no. n.i. 1 . i„ ' *;**'* 'U part 
mto such shallow water as somo mh r , °®® 
of this family; yet it seems to be ''widely ^ 
towards the north, for Nilsson mentions it^a 
coast of Sweden, where, however, it L not of L ! 
It does not exceed four nr hV • i • ^ occurrence, 
the former dimensions was in de^th"^ length, and one of 
-i* plump app^are a thm" , 
the sides. The gape is mrdl • T ^ compressed at 
I*’'-!"!; a veil or nmmbrane at the inh^ 
species; but in this it forms u ^ the other 
We; head flat above, and in T f Ws rather 
VOL. iiL ’ ‘‘"y examples it is elevated 
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