THE 
GREEN SCARUS. 
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Generic Character. 
Strong bony procejfes, c-renated at the edges, indead 
of teeth. 
Specific Character . 
Green SCARUS, with interrupted lateral line. 
The genus Scarus is eminently diftinguifhed by 
the form of its teeth, which confift of a pair of 
ftrong, bony proceffes in each jaw, as in the genus 
Tetrodon ; but marked or crenated round the edges 
by a number of feparate denticulations: the whole 
body alfo of the bony proceffes themfelves, if nar¬ 
rowly examined, will be found to confift, in fome 
fpecies, of a kind of aggregate mafs of fmaller 
teeth, placed as it were in fucceffion over each other, 
and giving a beautiful kind of carved appearance to 
the whole. The feales in molt of the Scari are large, 
and the colors beautiful. The prefent fpecies is 
about the lize of a Carp, and is a native of Japan. 
