FISHES. CHONDROPTERIGIOUS. 7o.Raia. 929 
Tail-fin 2-lobed ; fpines in a triple row at the beginning 
of the back, and afterwards in a fingle one ; firft dor- 
fal fin above the ventral. 
Inhabits the Red Sea; 2 yards long; body a little rough, pale 
aQi, above varied with whitifh aval Ipots, beneath whltilh, 
behind the vent are a few brown and white ftripes. 
Head triangular, very much depreffed, obtufe, flat above ; eyes 
vertical, iris white, edged with black, and furrounded with 
a row of fpines ; nojirils fituate a little before the mouth, ob- 
lique, fomething curved, arched on the fore-part with an 
oval pendulous flap ; teeth hemifperic-oval, contiguous ; 
back elevated, more convex before the firft fin, and after- 
wards gradually depreffed, between each of the fins a fingle 
row of fpines, entog behind the fecond ; beUy flat, long, 
convex behind the vent which is linear; anal fins o; dorfal 
blueilh, nearly triangular, rounded at the upper end, the firft 
about the middle of the back, the lecond nearer the tail ; pec- 
toral obtufely triangular, fpotted with white at the tip, and 
twice as large as the ventral which are of a fimilar ftiape, and 
inclofe the vent at the bafe ; caudal like the dorJaL 
Body oval, fmooth, teftaceous with blue Ipots j pinnate tali 
with a fingle fpine. 
Inhabits the Red Sea ; hardly a foot long ; fpots oval, unequal, 
beneath whitifh. . « i r • j 
£y« partly prominent; teeth granulate; peEloral fins punted 
ventral oval; taiU little longer than the body, a 
little depreffed on the fore-part, without fin, beneath white, 
above brown-teftaceous, with 2 longitudial blue ftripes ; in 
the middle is a long broad fpine which is fometimes double, 
furrounded with a blueifli-brown fkin, this Ipme is faid to 
inflia a polfonous wound ; behind the fpine a little compref- 
fed, blueilh, fringed on each fide with a membrane, broader 
on the lower part, the tip white and pointed. 
orbicular, filvery ; tail round, tvithout fin, and fur- 
niftied with 2 fpines. 
Inhabits the Red Seat 
Teeth granulate. 
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