546 



RAIID/E. 



CHONDROPTERYGII. 



RA11DA-.. 



THE NEW BRITISH TORPEDO. 



BONAP. Faun. Ital. fasc. xii. 1835. 

 THOMPSON, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. v. p. 292. 

 ,, ,, Fauna of Ireland, div. Vertebrata. 



emarginata, M'Cov, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. vi. p. 407 ? 



Torpedo nobiliana 

 ,, Walshii, 



IN the month of September 1808, H. Hunt, Esq. of 

 Dartmouth, did me the favour to send me two examples of a 

 Torpedo taken on the coast of Devonshire, and these are the 

 only British caught specimens I ever possessed. One of 

 them was very large, and was taken in a trawl-net ; this fish 

 I presented in Mr. Hunt's name to the Museum of the Zoo- 

 logical Society, and it is now in the collection : the second 

 specimen being smaller and more manageable, I preserved it 

 for myself, and from it the figure here given was drawn. 



