' FJSHES. THORACIC. 32. Perea. 
Head armed with larger prickles ; mouth pointed ; 
a little longer, very rough beneath ; iris white ; ventrti^ 
with a ftrong fpiiie, lerrate on the anterior edge. 
Dttrf. g, 3^ ; pect. 14: vent, j; an. caud. 14 rays* 
Lopkar. Silvery; ventral fins conpefted. • <( 
Inhabits Conjiantinople ; lize and lliape of a herring; 
grcenilh'brown ; is probably not of this genus. .tc 
firad with elevated grooves placed longitudinally bctwecf 
eyes ; anterior gill-covers ferrate only at the fides ; ^ 
the firft dorfal fin hardly fprnous, the other and anal 
flefhy at the anterior bale ; ventral connefted by means ° 
ridge upon the belly ; tail forked, the rays blackifla at ‘ 
tips. 
^orf. j, z-j: pect. 16: vent. I : an. cau 4 . I'j 
AraHea. Body filvery, with longitudinal black lines ; tail ” 
golden fpot, black in the middle. jl, 
Inhabits Arabia : body oblong lanceolate, truncate, 
without fpots or lines ; Icalcs lax, broad, deciduous, denV'^!], 
late, difpofed in about to rows; black lines ib—*? 
fide. 
proton flat ; iris yellow ; between the a ridge, obt^l® 
the fore-part and forked behind ; behind the eyes are 3 
yated bones; teeth long, fiibulate, ftraight, remote; 
jaw each fide 3, the middle one larger, in the middle of 
lower jaw ate 2 flronger remote ones s lips nearly equal ; f 
late covered with fetaceous teeth ; tongue fiat, finooth > 
nor gill-covers flightly ferrate at the hinder angle and 
only; dorfal fins remote, the firft brown, all the reft 
lowifh-brotyn ; dorfal, ventral and anal triangular, 
lanced ; tail bifid, the fegments lanceolate, 
<• d' pect. ig : vent. ^ : an. caud. 17 rays. 
Niktica. Dorfal fins hardly diftinfll ; tail entire. 
Inhabits the Nile and Cafpian fea. 
?> 3 ; pect. 14 ; vent. I : an. : caud. 15 yays. 
B. Dorfal fin fmgle-, tall undivideA. 
UndfUlati. Dorfal fins fubnnited ; body brown, waved ; a broW.'» 
at the pe£Iorai fins. 
Inhabits Carolina, and is there called the Craker. 
Anterior gill-covcrs with 5 flrort teeth ; tail entire, 
Verf, 10, pect. : vent.^; an. .p,'. caud. itevs. 
