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AJufi. 
Caprifcus, 
Fsrcipaius 
Pundatus. 
KUinii. 
Curajfa- 
vicus. 
FISHES. BRANCHIOSTEGOUS, 63. Baliftes. 
Body muricatc with brown warts ; tail with a tripie r®'*' 
of black ones. , 
Inhabits the Red Sea ; a fpan long; brown, belly white; ' ^ 
black, furrounded by a tawny ring ; flelh eatable) ® 
infipid. 
Crown with 4 blue and 3 alternate black tranfverfe bands bch’ 
the eyes ; iris golden ; hps yellow ; from the mouth W 
bafe of the pectoral fin is a rufty-brown line, from this 
the eye another lanceolate black one, and before this 
ccolate yellow one, edged with blueiib-white ; tail "'it” ® 
oblong white fpot ; firll dorfal fin black, placed in a lio‘,|? ' 
the firft rays warty and fpinous ; the other fins pale reddd”‘ 
Dorfal ray ferrate forwards, ventral fingle, low; 
rounded ; fnout a little obtufe, u 
Inhabits the American, Indian and Mediterranean leas ; 
variegated with many colours. 
Tail forked; dorfal fin fpottefd, 
Dorfal fpine rcfcmbling a horn, and every where rough witi' t 
bercles or finall teeth. 
Body pundlate. 
Inhabits the Indian Sea. 
Body fomewhat oblong ; jaws extended ; firft dorfal lp“’' 
rough each fide, ventral o. li, 
Inhabits the Indian Sea: body comprefTed, wliitifh, 
carinate. 
Head hardly thicker than the body, with the mouth 
the extremity ; teeth ftrong and numerous ; vent in th®^' 
die of the belly ; pertera/ fins and tat/ rounded. 
Porf 2, 46, pect. — , an, 47, caud, to rays. 
Firft dorfal ray rough, ventral low, blunt; tail trun^*^^’ 
fnout obtufe. 
Inhabits about the Caribbee Ifands ; 3 inches long ; body ' y,' 
a little flat, comprefTed, above brown, the fides pale 
fliining, above arched, beneath convex, and covered 
hard rough fc^les, thofe on the fides blackifh in the centi^’ 
