9 P 0 FISHES. BRANCHIOSTEGOUS. 63. Baliftes- 
Bead, ending in a fort of probofcis ; eyes nearly vertical, 
oblong, iris pale green ; jaws equal, the upper 
lower with lo fliarp teeth ; lateral line commencing ^ 
the eye, nearer and parallel with the back, and a ^ ij 
fleaed before the tail ; vcntra/ fpines long, denticulate/’ 
1 fide, and each placed in its feparate hollow, before whie^ 
a black fpot ; vent nearer the tail ; firft dorjal fin black, 
ray thick, ftrong, bent back, and toothed each fide ; the 
yellowifli ; pzctOTdl and caudal with branched raysj 
fimple. 
4> 23 : p. 13,: u. 1 : a. 17 : c. 12 rays. 
Aculeatus. dorfal fin 3-rayed ; tail with recumbent fpines at t*’*’ 
fides. 
Inhabits the Indian and Red Seas; feeds on young 
body broader and thicker than B. biaculeatus, and covet^_ 
with papillae on the furface, difpofed in an Irregular 
Eyes round, placed direftly behind the nojlrils, which are 
and rounded, iris golden ; jatus equal, the upper J, 
the lower with lo fliarp teeth ; ventral fpine ftrong, 
behind which are numerous dagger-like points ; the noD’ 
of rows of reverfed fpines on the tail, and the num^j jj 
fpines in thofe rows is different in different fubjcfts, i; 
perhaps occafioned by age; fins fhort; firft dorfal h*® ^ 
with fimple fpinous rays, the firft very broad and ferrate I 
wards at the bale; the reft chefnut, cinereous at each**' 
the rays foft and branched. 
33 25: peH. 15; vent. 13; an, 23; caud. 13 rays* 
Vetula. Firft dorfal fin 3-r^yed, ventral longitudinal ; tail 
Inhabits the deeps of the American and Indian feas ; y, 
teftaceous animals; body above yellow-brown with ^ 
i(h lines, the fides yellow, beneath cinereous ; the 
divided into Imall roundifh partitions, and it makes a 
ing kind of.noife when taken. 
Head middle-fized, varied with blue lines, of which about 8 ’f j 
pear to be radiate from the eye ; iris red ; lips thick 
wdth blue ; jaws furnifhed with cutting teeth, in the upP , 
14, lower 12 ; aperture of the giUs comparatively a 
vent in the middle of the belly, which is fumiftied w'’'" ^ 
rows of prickles before the fin ; tail with blueilh bands 
the anal fin, which are greyer nearer the tail ; pectoral 
yellow edged with blue ; dorfal blueifli, the firft ray/* L, 
anterior very ftrong and toothed forwards, the pofterior^^^^ 
