FISHES. BRANCHIOSTEGOUS. 58. Tetrodon, 
Oblong ; jaws equal. 
2. Back with 6 brown bands. . , r . 1 
Inhabits India; feeds on tcftaceous amnials ; Body nearlpo- 
vered with minute prickles, above varied with brown lines, 
the fidcs filvery is probably a fpecies of Diodon. 
Head long, above broad; vertical, ins yellow ; between 
the eyes and lips a white, round ipot ; nojlrib double , aper- 
tuf-e of the gUls large, the. cover pointed dowmwaids ; baik 
coUex ; lateral line double, the upper begiiuimg behind the 
fve, bent down, near the back, and reaching to the tail ; 
the lower beginning from the chin, near the belly, and bent 
up at the pectoral fins ; Jins yellow-alh, the rays branched. 
» Dorf. 12 : pect. 16 : an. n : cand. 19 rays. 
p.iB: a.^: c. t nys. 
'treaties. Taws elongated into a fnoiit. j .1, i, 1 
Inhabits India : body white, cinereous towards the back, com- 
preffed at the fides, and prickly on the back and fore-part of 
Print ^niping, broad; large, vertical, reddilli, fur- 
mundel's^h brown rays ; jam equal, marked with bfov^ 
rays ; Jins yellowifb, with branched rays ; tad blown at each 
end ; peroral fhort, broad. 
Dor/. 9, pect. t6, an. 8, caud. iQ rays. 
',W Bdly dib«We and Prickiy brfor. .he anal fin 
blue, the fies and belly white; it has the power of inflating 
its belly to a large and globular fize when alarmed, and erea. 
/r^ihite^itged with red; lack flraight ; dorfal fin placed 
low down on the back, the anal oppohte ; tad almoft even, 
divided in the middle by an angular projedion ; fns 
brown. - ^ j 
Dorf. 15, ptli' 18, an. 12, taud. 11 ra)S. 
^^idns. Body entirely covered with pale fetaceous prickles. • 
2. Body Ipotted. 
. Inhabits Jntfw; belly dilatable. 
Dorf. 9 : pect. 17 : tJ«. 10 : caud. ip rays. 
Unarmed, rough, compreffed, tail wry ftort and 
rounded, dorfal and anal fins «t^n,aed 
^ n. Unarmed, 
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