FISHES. JUGULAR, I 4 - Uranofcopus. 313 
Inhabits the fea round Japan ; gi inches long ; hody variegated, 
linooth, roundiih, , r t r. 
Head, depreffed ; eye.i large, approximate. 5 
black rays, the hinder whitiOi ; peHoral fins rounded ; ven- 
tral very large ; caudal 4 inchc^i long, forked, the rays un- 
equal, 
Dorf, 4, 10 : pcct. 17 : vent. 5 : an. 8 : eaud. 9 rays. 
14. URANOSCOPUS. Head large, depref. 
fed, rough : upper javi fhorter than the 
lower ; gill-membrane with 6 papillous 
toothed rays ; the covers with a mem- 
branaceous fringe ; vent in the midolc 
of the body. 
Back fmooth. ,1.1. 
Inhabits Mediterranean fea: Ax<ia;ae.n\.s awp ^ 
flaores ; about a foot long ; body above 
the fides, beneath white ; feeds on leffer filh and aquatic.in 
fefts ; fpmetimes fleeps ; flelh white 
Head large, fquare, mailed with a breath in 
minute warts, and which t^'-niinates above in 2, beneath m 
, fpnes, tkick,^^. ZS 
Zl kvfy witS lower covered with a membrane tenm- 
nating in ahong appendage ; vertical, approximate, pu- 
pil black, iris yellow, aperture of the verylarp;^ 
Lvered with fmall fcales, nearly fquare as far as the vent, 
and afterwards round •, lateral line cOnfiaing of fma 1, round, 
hollow dots, defeending from the nape to the petbralhns 
and afterwards ftmight ; Jins with foft yellow rays, thole ot 
the ventral quadrihd, of the broad peaoral cleft at the ip, 
of the gloffy-black anal and dorfal fimple, ■ of the caud 1 
much branched ; firft dorfal fin bony. 
Dorf. 4, 14 : pect. 17 : vent. 6 ; an. 13 : cau'i* 12 tay*- 
Back with a 
row of fptnous fcales, 
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Inhabits 
