Diodon . Colour white, marked lengthwife on the 
back and Tides with brown (tripes ■, and on each fide the bale of the 
dorfal fin with a fpot of the fame: body armed with fhort com- 
preffed fpines, trifid at the bafe. D. ii» P. 2,2. A. 11. 
This fifh which is omitted by Linnaeus, is defcribed by Ray 
p. 42. No. 3. who gives as fynomia OrbisJpinoJus Cluf. and Gua- 
maicu atinga Maregr. Petiver has given a figure of it Tab. LXIX. 
fig. 1. which he copied from Sir Walter Rawleigh’s paintings 
with this infcription, “ A fwelling fifh eight incnes in length: and 
defcribes the ground colour to be yellow, all the (beaks very biack, 
the prickles blueifh, fides tawny, fins a redifh brown. 
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