f^lSHES. t'HbliACiC. 32. Perea. 817 
'Tail rounded ; body adly-brown, covered with white 
fpecks. 
2- Body blueifli, with brown dots, ^ 
3. Whitifh-alh, with yellowilh-brown dots. 
Inhabits Arabia ; very much re’.entbles the laft. 
Head brown, a little dotted ; beneath the eyes each an ob- 
long black fpot ; irti brown ; fins brown, ipeckled with 
white' ; tail Ihort, with a black Ipot above. 
Dorf.^t- P- '^1 ■ c. 15 rays. 
2] Dorf. ’ : pe^- 18 : verit. i: an. — : caud. 18 rays. 
3) Dorf. II : /r. 18 : o. u. — : c. 15 rays. 
Yellowilh ; tail oval ^ lower jaw Ihortcf. 
Inhabits China : rolemblcs the river P., but fmaller. 
Mouth oblong, rounded; lateral hue curv>td-, tongue, palate 
and fits yellowifli ; dorfal reaching from the heau to the tailj 
narrower in the middle. 
Dorf j?! peB. 18 i vent. 6 : an. Z'- <^etud. 17 ray*. 
C. Dorfal fin ftngle : tailfiorhdi 
Above reddifll, beneath whitifh. ' 
Inhabits Afanfon Ijle : body narrow, covered With oblong. 
round icale-s, denticulate on the fore-part. 
rouuu , riipcps 2 of the teeth larger than 
Gill-covers ferrate, ot 2 pieces, 2 01 lu- a 
the reft. ^ 
Dorf . ;; : pect. 16 : vent. 8: an. 14: caud, -o rays. 
Oblong-lanceolate^ carmine with pale violet dots ^ hlnP- 
edge of all the fins yellow. , , , 1 1 ni. 
Inhabits Arabia ; about a yard long ; body beneath pale with- 
out fpots; fcales fmall, ftriate, rounded, entire. 
Crown naked, convex ; iris carmme ; nrjinls fimple, with a 
conic cirrus before them ; lips obtufe, the upper fhorter, 
protraAile; teeth fetaceous, flexile, remote, conic, lome ot 
them ftronger; gill-covers fat, Icaly, the anterior very entire, 
pofterior 3-fpined behind; lateral lint nearer the back, and 
Lt parallels pectoral and ventral fins without fpots, th 
former oval, the latter with a falcate angle-; tail Imftar. 
Dorfi. pect. IT '. vent. It an. p,i caud. 15 says. 
Peaoral fins tipt with yellow; tail lunate; body whh 
blood-red dots. 
Inhabits America: is fufpeaed of being poifOnous. 
Vol. I. 5 
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