78 
POUTASSOU. 
Poutassou, wLich therefore inust have produced them on our 
coast, although the parent fish in this instance had not been 
discovered Ihese young ones measured about five inches in 
h’^f ’•esembled the larger example, except perhaps 
that the body was more slender, and in consequence the head 
appeared proportionally a little larger. They continued to 
abound for about three weeks, at the end of which, between 
the 21st. and 23rd. of July, they all suddenly disappeared. 
ihe length of the example first referred to was fifteen inches- 
depth two inches and a half, the greatest depth being at the 
vent which is anterior to a line drawn from the origin of 
the fiist dm sal fin; from the mouth to the edge of the criH 
covers three inches. Under jaw a little the longest; eye large- 
upper maxillary bone terminal, the snout receding from it 
backward, contrary to the form of the Whiting, in which the 
upper jaw is under a projection. The general shape of the 
body more slender than in the Whiting, but that this did not 
proceed from emaciation is shown by the roundness of the 
back, w^hich was plump. Prominent teeth in the jaws, and at 
he roof of the mouth a pair of prominent, sharp, incurved 
teeth. Lateral line straight, passing along near the back- 
another line along the middle of the side, formed by the 
mee ing of the -usdes; the body ending more slender at the 
caudal fin. The first dorsal begins over the posterior third of 
the pectoral; second dorsal like the first in shape and elevation, 
both being triangular; between them a space about equal to 
heir individual breadths; nearly twice this breadth between 
the second and third dorsal fins; the beginning of the third 
dorsal slightly anterior to the second anal fin; caudal fin shaped 
as in the Whiting, but less wide; the pectoral ends opposite 
the middle of the first dorsal; veiitrals small and slender 
rather high on the side, and much like those of the Pollack- 
the longest ray seven eighths of an inch in length. From the 
vent to the first anal fin a quarter of an inch; first anal loim 
widest in the middle; second anal longer than the third dorsal 
both ending close to the caudal fin. Colour on the b ek 
brown, sides much lighter, belly white; eye yellow, lighter 
yellow on the gill-covers. A dark spot on the upper border 
of the origin of the dorsal fin; along the base of the anal 
fins a broad white band, but not at the margin, and this 
