FISHES. APODAL. 8. Stomateus. 
715 
(lilperfed over tlie body, fometimes round, foraetimes nearly 
oval, larger near the head, and hardly diftinguifliable near tire, 
tail, adhering to the body by means of a thin tranlpavent ikin. 
Dorf.\z^: peS. 2o;^ 115. 
Jaws without cirri ; tail fornewhat blunt. Beardlefs 0 . 
^ihabits European feas. 
Dorfat, anal and caudal fins united. 
Dorf, 1471 peQ.2,6: fl?t. 4't’. caud, i8. 
Jaws without cirri ; tail a little pointed. Green 0 . 
Inhabits deep parts of the Greenland feas ; is a very rare filh, 
and is found often as large as a whiting; the body ts long, 
comprefl'ed, green ; flelh eatable. 1 i ■ . n n 
IMd broader than the body, deprelfed the neek elevated and 
grooved between the eyes;, eyes large, dufty-green, ins 
Ihite ; mouth large ; lower lip a little longer than the upp^^; 
teeth dorfal, anal md caudal fins nnil<.d, white, the 
rays very fmall and numerous ; beily white befoie the vent, 
which is nearer the liead : rays of the caudal fin longer and 
ending in a point. Pe£i. to — 11 rays. 
Jaws acuminate. _ 
Inhabits frefii rivers of India ; 6 — 8 inches long , e s on 
worms and a fat kind of earth; is elculent and long. 
Head fmall, narrovr ; jams without teeth ; eyes ma ^ P P 
black, irif white ; gill-cover of one piece ; back convex, tiu. 
ftdes above reddilh, beneath filvery, with 14 recurved diainft 
prickles, longitudinally placed before the fin; 
Lil ; plaoral fins violet, brown at the bafe; dorfal hn red- 
difii varied with brown, , with 2 black pots i^urrounded with 
a paler ring ; analP^n rcddlfh edged with black, caudal biue- 
iQi varied with black* 
Dorf. 51 : 53 ' 
8. STOMATEUS. Head compreffed : teeth 
both in the jaws and palate ; body oval^ 
broad, flippery : iJfiw forked. 
I' 
‘‘^tola. Body beautifully partly barred. 
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Inliabits 
