745 FISHES. T^IORACIC. 22 . Gobins. 
Inhabits the lakes of Aviltoina j is very fat, and about 3 
long ; when purfued by other filh, hides itfelf in the ’ 
body a little comprelTcd, and hardly dccreafing towards ‘ 
tail, covered wjth large, round, coriaceous fcales. ly 
Head Hoping, long, much thicker than the body and 
fquare ; front unequal'; mouth tranfveiTe ; lips thick, ’ 
granulous within, the upper one doubled in; teeth 
^ unequal, diftant, irregularly alternate ; pedate flelhy, 
flcfhy, foft; eyes vertical, placed forwards, 
rant, the pupils turned to the iides, with a large lunate ^ 
vity beneath each ; ^ill-cover oblong, fcaly ; moll of 
•of the fins branched ; pectoral placed on a flelhy, fcaly 
aual with the 3 outnioll ravs branched ; tail ovaj-a'-’*" ’ 
lateral line o ; vent in the middle of the body. 
Dorf. 8, 13 : peel. 16 : v'ent. 12 : an, ta : caud, 19 rays* 
Melanuros Porfal fin fingle ; tail black. 
Anguilla- porfal fin fingle ; tail red. 
’''S* Inhabits China; body fat, flippery like an eel. 
Teeth llanding opt of the mouth ; fns all red ; detrfal and ' 
joined to the caudal ; pectoral very (mail, rounded. 
P.onJ. 53 : pect. 12 ; vent. 10; an. 43: caud. 12 rays. 
^odderti. Rays of the anterior dorfal fin cirriform, the third 
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Inhabits the Indian ocean ; about 6 inches long ; body 
brown, beneath pale yellow, fat, convex, hardly tap^'' 
towards the tail, and covered with fmall foft fcales. 
//ead thick, blunt, fubconvex, with white and brown *P*j ! 
croxon convex, gradually Hoping down ; jaws nearly ^4 [j. 
lips thick, flelhy ; eyes vertical, oblong ; gilhmenihft^’^^ m! 
yid ; lateral line with hardly vilible papillx and * , js 
Inowy ipots ; back with 7 brown Ijrots each fide, ‘"T J, 
many white dots on the fides ; vent a little nearer the.” S- 
^furrounded with a black circle, behind which is a cOi'X^ i fl 
duncld ; doffal fins blueilh-black, the membrane of tl"^ li 
Ipotted with white, the other with fetaceous raySji^’j j) 
tranfverle white lines between each ray ; Aectorc/ roun” 
> tad blucifh-whije. . 
-Poty 5 > 25 ptttl 21 
vent. 34 ; an. 25 ; caud. 18 rays- 
Lagoct- 
phalus. 
U^per jaw hcmifphaerical ; fongiic and lateral line o- 
