Wishes, thoracic’. ai.Corypiiaena. 7T5 
Head and fins cancellate with blue lines. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean fea. Back fliarp. 
^‘^^pilus. Back with fmall yellowlfh bands above the curved lateral 
line. . , , . , 
Inhabits the Ocean : body fat, tapering behind. 
Head obtufe mouth large, rough within ; jams cohering at the 
fide, the lower al'cending; tirft dorfaL fin joined to the le- 
cond ; pectoral fins ending in a point. 
Dorf.^J pect. vent. 6 : art. : caud. i 6 . 
Vcirfaia. Milk-white filvery with tranfverfe brown circles rimning 
from the bands of the dorfal fin, generally cohering on 
the back and difappearing on the belly. 
Inhabits Amboiiia ; 2 inches long ; body tapering, a little co:n- 
preffed ; back pale grey ; a moft beautiful filh. 
Head conic, flat above ; eyes large, iris golden ? mouth large i 
tongue fmooth ; aperture of the gills very large, the cover of 
2 round pieces ; lateral line ftraight, a little prominent ; vent 
in the middle of the body ; pb^oralunA ventral fins hyaline ; 
dorfal and anal with brown tends ; tail deeply forked, with 
a brown crefeent. 
HorJ, 54 : peef, 19 vent, g : an. 27 : caud. 17 rays. 
^‘^ifera, Silvery-alh’ ; dorfal and anal fins very large, ventral very 
fmall. 
Inhabits the fouthem Indian Ocean s body fmall, flat, tbju, 
equally tapering towards the tail, covered each fide with 
11 rows of large, thin fcales, finely flriate, deeply notched 
at the top and armed at the bafe with a fhort recumbent 
fpine. 
Head covered with truncate fcales ; eyes large, iris golden ; 
mouth large, afeending ; jams with fubulate incurved teeth, 
the upper in a Angle, lower in a double row;- dorfal fin 
beginmng from the front, the membrane connefting the rays 
brown with pale fpots, 2 firft rays very fl-.ort, triangular, 
bony, the reft letaceous, 9—17 very long; pectoral pai^ 
pointed, middle-fized; ventral one-rayed; ana/ edged wtn 
■white, the 2 firft rays white, bony, the firft , 
long, the reft fetaceous, the fifth very long; tail deeply 
forked, with 3 fupporters. 
Dorf, 55: pect. 14: vent, 1: an. 51 : caud, 22 rays. 
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