NEW BRITISH TORPEDO. ~>47 



This species differs from the one represented by Walsh, 

 Pennant, Hunter, Shaw, and Donovan, and also that figured 

 by myself in the last engraving, page 542, in having tem- 

 poral spiracles with perfectly smooth edges : it agrees, more- 

 over, with the Torpedo caught in July 1840 in one of the 

 weirs at Swansea, so minutely described by L. W. Dill- 

 wyn, Esq. in his " Contributions towards a History of Swan- 

 sea." It agrees also with the Torpedo Walshii of William 

 Thompson, Esq. who has seen my specimen, and considers it 

 identical with those which have been taken on different parts 

 of the coast of Ireland, most of which are particularly referred 

 to by Mr. Thompson in his paper in the fifth volume of the 

 Annals of Natural History, as already quoted among the 

 synonymes. My specimen is, I believe, identical also with the 

 Torpedo emarginata of Mr. M'Coy, as described and figured 

 in the sixth volume of the Annals of Natural History, pages 

 407 and 408. 



When looking over my collection of British Rays with 

 C. L. Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, during his visit to Lon- 

 don in May last, that distinguished naturalist, on seeing the 

 Torpedo, immediately said, " that is the nobiliana of my 

 Fauna Italica," and I have accordingly placed that name at 

 the head of the synonymes. There is, I think, little doubt 

 that this Mediterranean fish is identical with our new British 

 Torpedo ; the figure in the Fauna Italica exhibits the double 

 emargination on the anterior edge at the junction of the pec- 

 toral fins with the head, as shown and described by Mr. 

 M'Coy, in his communication to the Annals of Natural His- 

 tory, before referred to ; but it does not exhibit the anterior 

 dorsal fin entirely behind the ventrals. In other particulars 

 it agrees with the New British Torpedo, our second species. 



Several specimens of Torpedo, besides those already men- 

 tioned, have been taken at various times on different parts of 

 our coast, particularly in Devonshire, Cornwall, South Wales, 



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