FISHES. BRANCHIOSTEGOUS. 63. Balifles. goi 
cate, and like the anal cinereous, with blue lines ; all thefe 
have forked rays ; tail edged with blue, the rays yellow and 
branched, the outmoft each fide very long. 
Dorf. 3,30: pect, 16 : vent. i6 ; an, 28: caud. 12 rays. 
‘^^^latus Anal fin broad ; firft dorfal fin 2-fpined. , , _ 
Inhabits the American body thicker than the laft, violet, 
beneath whiti fir -yellow ; the fkin is divided into linall un- 
equally fquare pieces, and covered with papillae. 
Head finall, a little doping ; before the eyes is a linall hollow, 
in which are placed the double nojlrils ; iris fea-green ; jams 
equal, each with 12 teeth; between the flrong bone of the 
belly and vent a few fpines inllead of ventral fins ; rays of 
the fins branched ; peefomZ fmall, yellow; the reft large; 
firft dorfal affixed to the back by a long membrane, the firft 
ray thick, ftrong, toothed forwards, the other thin and ffiort. 
Dorf. 2, 241 peet, 14 • 31 : caud. 12 rays. 
Firft dorfal fin 3-rayed ; each fide the head 3 folds ; tail 
forked. 
Inhabits China: is very large and entirely black, broad on the 
fore part and narrowed behind, the belly armed with a long 
rough ftrong ipine, the fkin divided into rhombic partitions. 
Head ffiort, very much Hoping; iris white; mouth large; 
upper jaw a little longer ; tail with 3 grooves, terminated 
by a lunate fin ; firft ray of the firft dorfal fin bent back, 
jagged on the fore- part, the other fin very Imall ; rays of the 
others branched ; anal and fecond dorfal with a blue ftreak. 
Dorf. 3, 29; pea. 15 : an. 26 ; caud. 12 rays. 
Head with a fingle ray; ventral fin finglc. 
Inhabits the feas round Brajtl and Chinas body broad, rough, 
fptinkled with imall orange fpots, cinereous at the fides, be- 
neath whitiffi ; fleffi hardly eatable. 
Head fmall, iloping, with a fpine between the eyes, which is 
rouah each fide with inverted teeth, and placed in a hollow 
on the back ; eyes large, round, placed behind the noftrils and 
ears, iris white; jatttr equal, each with 10 teeth; lateral 
lint beginning immediately behind the eyes, bent downward 
hardly vifible, and armed with a double row of 4 prickles 
bent forwards ; ventral fin fingle, rough, the rays toothed and 
the tips except of the firft covered by a thick fkin ; tail 
rounded, the rays fplit at the end ; the other rays fimple; 
firft dorfal and anal cinereous dotted with yellow, 
Horf. 1, 30 : pect, 13 : vent. 13 : an, 30 : caud, 12 rays. 
