Teuthis Hepatus. Dottor. Teeth ferrated: body very 
deep and compreffed: head and body a dufky purple, to near the 
tail, where it is white: on each fide the body near the tail, a ftrong 
fpine, pointing towards the head, with a grove for it to lay in: 
lateral line runs parallel to the arch of the back: tail forked. 
D. P. 16. V. A. 
Taken among the Caribee Iflands. 
As fifh, and likewife fea birds, fwallow fifh with their heads 
downward, that the fpiny rays of the fins may fall, and not in¬ 
jure them j the fide fpines of this fifh, mufl therefore be a great 
defence to it* as its enemies cannot guard againft them. 
