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FISHES. THORACIC. 22. Gobm%. 
Body round, comprelTed towards the tall ; fize of -a finger ; 
grey or dark brown, covered with minute fcalcs. 
Head. Ihort, thick, without fcales ; mouth tranfv'crfc ; upper 
jam very thick, lower with a few larger teeth which are a 
little hooked ; lips cleft in the middle, dovibled, the upper 
{hv and very thick, reaching much beyond the jaw ; /Ja- 
with numerous crowded finall teeth on the margin ; eyes 
diilai t, finall, covered with the common" (kin ; rays of the. 
iirR. dor/al fin fimple, of the other and ftii/ .branched ; 
oval-rounded ; pectoral lanceolate-oval ; ventral with vxry 
fhort crowded rays ; vent in the middle of the body. 
Dorf. 6, II : p(e<’ 1.5 : '-jejit. 3 ; an. 10 : ca.-td. 12 rays. 
Body covered with large fubciliate fcales; tail rounded ; 
the membrane, connefting the rays teffellate with 
brown. * 
Inhabits Amhoina ; fizeof a finger; body compreffed, thickifii, 
convex, grey-brown, beneath whiter. 
Head a little thicker than the body, (km foft, cancellate tvitb 
fine lines; treiA fubequal, minute ; flat, foft, obtule; 
eyes lateral, and between them a blackifli, femilanecolate crell 
01 told ; rays of the fins moftly branched; firft dor/ai lyo^- 
er, with fimple rays; /-fctora: broad; firft rJy of 
fimple ; lateral line obfoletc ; peduncle near the vent, taper- 
ing, rather obtufe and lying in a cavity. 
porj, 6, 10 : ptet. 
.c aim *** 
18; X2: An. loi Cfiiia. 15 
Tail very long ; Iharp-pointed, 
•Inhabits the rivers and brooks of Martimco.' body oblong, c^ 
vered with round imbricate fcales which art larger on the 
hind-part; beneath cinereous; flefli good. 
Head ohlong, truncate; vertical, pupil black, ms gol- 
den • mwicqual; fmtgite loofe, acute; blueifli, edged 
with red ; aperture of the gills large, the cover of 2 pieces; 
lateral line m the middle of the body ; vent nearer the head; 
dorfal and anal fias with fimplo, foft, diftant rays, connote 
ed by a thin pellucid membrane; rays of the firft dorjal 
reachLgfarbe)ond the membrane ; ^ the 
each ' fide a brown fpot ; rays of the other fins P ■ , 
ends; pectoral yellow, edged with blue; taiJ greemfli-yel- 
low at the bafe, and edged with violet. 
porf. 6 , 18; pta. 11: an. 16: caud. 20 nys. 
Flumieri. 
