FISHES. THORACIC. 26. Pkuroncaes. 765 
V^eDt on the left fide ; teeth (harp. 
“• Inhabits Europe. 
Dor/. 68 : pdl. 10: vent. 6 ; an. caud. 19 rays. 
Very fmooth ; above brown, beneath white ; middle rays 
of the dorfal and anal fms rough with fmall fpincs. 
Inhabits iandy places of the Frozen Sea ; 9 inches long ; bony 
part of the head behind the eyes prominent, rough. 
Body above with brown fpots. 
Inhabits, though raiely, fandy places on the mouths of nvers 
Greenland :\-ix 6 .\y -i foot long; feeds ori fmall worms and 
hili • in fhape refembles P. iinguatula, in its fcales the foie, 
and in its fpots the plaife; body oblong, narrowing at each 
end and covered with large rough fcales ; above alhy-tawny, 
beneath fmooth, white; is troubled with the gordms man- 
nus and is verv good eating. _ 
//saafmevsth; black, iris filvery ; low^er mta longer, ter- 
minuted by a tubercle ; tongue long, flender, fmooth, rounded 
at the end ; vent at the edge of the belly ; lateral line nearer 
the belly, ilraight ; peQoral fins fhort, and like the ventral 
wedged ; tail large, bToud, a little rounded, 
Dorf, 89 : peel, 12 ; ' vent, 6 : an, 71 : caua. 10 rays. 
B. Eyes both on the left fide of the heesd. 
Body rough, barred with black ; 
Inhabits NoHh America. 
Scales ciliar ; tail rounded. 
DorJ. 53 1 p. o '• ti. 4 > 5 ■ d 5 
pedloraV fins o. 
: c. 16 raj's 
Lateral line double ; pcaoral fins o. ,, , , .. 
Inhabits China; body thin, long, above yellow, edged with 
brown, beneath reddifii-white, entirely covered with fmall 
roundilh denticulate fcales. r A A 
Head large; eyes tmall, pupil white, ms fea-grecn, 
with a white line; mouth fmall, femilunar ; teeth obtuie, 
aperture of the gfWt large, the “^er of one piece over th 
membrane; lateral lines, one nearer the back, the o ^ 
the middle, and belides thefe 2 tranfverfe ‘J? “'Z 
lip; brown with fimple rays; dorfal fuvrounding tk. 
the head and with the flttaf joined to the cauiai. 
Dorf, ar}, and caud. 174. 
Punctatiis, 
