S96 FISHES. BRANCHIOSTEGOUS. 61. fegrifuS* 
61. PEGASUS. beneath : fnout'^^! 
tradile ; upper jaw elongated, de’^K 
culate, enfiform, linear: aperture ^ 
the gills fingle, before the pe&o^^ 
fins : body compreffed downward^ 
articulate with bony incifures, 
mailed : ventral fins behind the 
toral. 
bfacanis. Snout conic; ^ 
Inhabits Indid ; 3—4 inches long ; feeds on vvbmis, the 
of other filh and fat earth ; body above blucifli, with 
radiate tubercles, beneath broad, with a longitudinal em'^ 
in the middle, on which are leated the ventral fins. . jii 
Head clofe to the trunk ; eyes prominent, lateral, moveah* 
every direction, iris yellow ; jaws with minute teeth ; 
tins of the gills narrow, lunate, the cover radiate ; rijjc 
the tail, which has 8 gibbous-laminx at the fides ; ray^ ° 
fins fimple. 
DorJ", 4 : pect. io : neat, i : ar; 5 : caud, 8 rays; 
Volans. Snout enfiform, denticulate. 
Inhabits India. 
V 
Natans. Snout enfiform, unarmed. 
Inhabits India ; fize of P. draconis ; body broad on the 
and narrowed behind, above yellow-brown, beneath 
Irnooth, white. 
Head flat, fmooth, broad; narrowed on the fore-part ; eyt^ 
round, lateral, iris yellow ; fnout dilated at the tip ; 
radiate ; tad with 1 1 lamina:, which grow gradually 
towards the tip, the laft with 2 fpines ; vent in the 
I the body ; rays of the fins fimple ; -peEloral violet ; 
brownilh ; dorfal and anal oppofite, fmall ; caudal 
Derf. 5, put. vent, i, an. 5, ccud, 8 raj^s, 
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