Fishes, apodal. 4* 5. Ansrhich^®' 
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4. TRICHIURUS. Head lengthened, ^ 
apertures lateral : teeth enliform, 
ed on one fide, the fore-ones 
giU-membrane 7-rayed : body compf^/” 
fed, enliform; tail fubulate, 
out fin. 
leptarus. Lower ja\v longer than the upper. . 
Inhabits freili waters of South American gi feet longS aJ 
voiacious, and fwims rapidly ; frcc^uently leaps into 
they pafs by ; body naked, entirely filvery. Mti 
Head narrow, compreiled, long ; mouth large ; teeth 
Ibme long and hooked, ibme Ihort and pointed; 
Imooth, triangular ; palate fmooth ; throat with 
imall bones ; e^'cjr vertical, approaching, large, rtfi' 
iris golden, within edged with white ; ’ aperture of t*'® 
large, of one piece and membranaceous at the edgs ! ‘ r 
line yellow', reaching from the gill-cover to the tip .j'jpS 
tail ; vent narrow, nearer the head than the tail ; 
fmall, 1 t-rayed ; dorjal (ingle, extending from the 
nearly the tip of the tail; inftead of the dna/ fin ate ® 
iio fmall prickles, behind the vent. Dorf. 117: 
Indtciis. Jaws equal. .^,1, 
Inhabits the Indian Ocean : is in a fmall degree 
brown, fpotted, with mod minute teeth ; tat7 lefs, 
5. ANARHICHAS. ’rounded, 
fore-teeth in each jaw, conic, 
divergent, 6 or more ; grinders ii^ 
lower jaw and palate rounded: 
membrane n - rayed ; body 
caudal fin diftin£l:. WofP 
Lupus. Livid-afh ; fides, anal and caudal fins and belly 
Raveno^^' 
Sides and back with irregular tranfverfe dulky ftreak®' 
