FISHES. APODAL. 2. Gy mnotus, 705 
Inhabits Surinam; refembks the laft but is fatter and has * 
deeper cavity on the fore-part of the back. 
Upper Up notched each fide before the angle of the mouth. 
DnrJ. o : peEl. 13 : acnt. a ; an, 180 ; caui. o. 
Blackifh, without dorfal fin • caudal fin very obfufe and 
joined to the anal. EkRrtcal G. 
Inhabits various rivers of South America ; 3—4 feet long ; has 
a remarkable power of infliaing an ekarical fiiock when- 
ever it is touched. This may be conveyed through.a Rick 
to the perfon that holds it, and is lb fcvcrc as to benumb the 
limbs of fuch as are expofed to it. By this power it ilupi- 
fies and then leizes fuch Ihaaller Hlh and animals as have ven- 
tured to approach it. r a It 1-n -i 
Head fprinkled with perforated dots body blackifli with a mim- 
b -r of fmall annular bands or rather wrinkles, by whicli it 
has the power of contrading and leiigthemng its body ; no/- 
trils a each fide, the firft large, tubular and elevated the 
others fmall, and level with the Ikin ; fmall, prickly; 
tongue broad and with the palate waity* 
Fore-part of the back fnowy. Pf'hite-JhouUered G. 
Inhabits Surinam : about a foot long ; flrarp edged, b«'ry j 
tail white covered with rounded fcales, which aic very Iniall 
on the back. „ - . i t 
Head with a deeper mouth than the reft of its tribe, veiy ob- 
tufe, flelhy and fprinkled with minute pores; upper l!;!i very 
thick including the lower ; tongue a ; gill-covers with a le- 
milunar opening before the fleftiy bafe of ; 
Pebioral fins black, prominqnt, with a fmall double bone at 
the bafe of the firft ray ; palate befet with papillae ; anal fin 
beginning from the throat; fore-part of the back convex, 
with a brown foft flelhy cirrus behind the middle, behind 
which it isdeftitute of fcales; iat/ comprefted, flat, with an 
oval fin ; from the tip of the lower jaiv to the middle of the 
back a fnowy band. 
Dorf, o: pc£l. 16: an. 147: caui. 20. 
Snout fubulatc ; anal fin 
fhorter than the tail- ' , , „ 
Sbarp-nofei G, 
Inhabits America. Body fpotted ; fubacute. 
Herf, o: pe£i. 19: an. 296; caud. o. 
Noiopterus. 
