H is t o r y .
A po d a l .
T h o r a c ic .
whitiih fpines. It can blow itfelf up into the form of a round
ball.
T h i s , and fome other fpecies o f the fame genus, are frequent in
the Chinefe and JapaneJe feas. This fpecimen was taken in the
Ganton river. The effefts o f eating it is dreadful; i f eaten entire,
it is the moft fatal of poifons, and even when dreffed according to
art, has had mortal confequences; yet fuch is the rage of epi-
curifm, that .many pepple jyiH not forbear this tempting.^and.
It is often ufed by fuch who in deipair with to remove them-
felves into the other world. The Chinefe boil with it a branch o f
the Ilhcium anifatum, Kcemp. Amoen. tab. 885, in order to fecure the
* effeiits. Such is the ftrange but true hiftory o f this deadly filh.
B O N E Y F I S H E S -
A p o d a l .
T r ic h iu ru s .— Lepturus, Brown. Jam. p. 444. tab. xlviii. f. 3.
Seb. Mus. iii. tab. xxxiii. '
T H O R A C I C .
Gobius.— Niger, Bloch, mi p. sUab: xxxviii. Br. Zool. iii. N” 95,.
found alfo on the coaft o f Britain.
Eleotris, Ofbeck, ii. p. 332.
Anguillaris, Gmel. Lin.. 1201.
Peftiniroftris,- Ofieck, ii. p. 332.
C h ^ t o d o n .— Pinnatus, Seb. Mus. iii. tab. xxv. fig. 15.
Argenteus, Gmel. Lin. 1242.
Sparus.
F A U N U L A OF CHINA.
S p a r u s .— Nobilis, OJbeck, ii. 33a.
Cbinenfis, OJbeck, ii. 33a.
L a b r u s .— Opercularis, Gttiel. Lin. 1286.
Cbinenjis.
P e r c i l.— Cbinenfis.
S c o m b e r .— 'Trachurus, OJbeck, ii- p. 332>. Br- ZooL ii!' N* 1 34-
A b d o m i n a l .
C l u p e a .— Thrifla, OJbeck, ii. p. 333.
Du Halde, i. 119, calls this fpecies the fa d . “ There is,” fays
he, “ near Nanking, a famous fifhery for ihads, called Sbe-yu, in
the months of April and May; and at another place, a good way
from thence, there is fuch plenty of this fort o f filh, that they
often carry .them to a neighboring ifland, called Lfong-rning,
where they were fold exceeding cheap, at the time the mif-
fionaries made the map of it.”
Myftus, OJbeck, ii. p. 333.
Sinenfis, OJbeck, ii. p. 333.
Lanatus, OJbeck, ii. p. 333.
A b d o m in a l .
C y p r in u s .— Auratus, fee p. 156 of this volume.
Cantonenfs, OJbeck, ii'. p. 333-