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Norway, the king of the herrings ! ; one of which is 

 said by some to have one hundred and twenty rays, 

 and by others one hundred and sixty, and to attain 

 the length of ten feet ; the other has more than four 

 hundred rays, and is eighteen feet in length 2 . The 

 ventrals consist of a long filament dilated near the 

 extremity. They are also found in India \ 



Stylephorus, Shaw. 



A vertical caudal, as in Gymnetrus, but shorter ; 

 the extremity of the tail instead of being curved into a 

 small hook, is prolonged into a slender cord longer 

 than the body. 



S. chordatus, Shaw, Lin. Trans. I. vi. Nat. Misc. 

 vii. pi. cclxxiv. and Gen. Zool. iv. part i. pi. ii. A 

 badly preserved specimen, and the only one known. 

 It was taken in the Gulf of Mexico, and for a long 

 time we had only the above mutilated drawing of it. 

 M. de Blainville, however, has given us a more regular 



1 It is the Regalecus glesne, Ascanius, Ic, Fasc. ii. pi. xi., which 

 he afterwards named Ophidium glesne, Mem. Soc. Scient. Copenh. 

 iii. p. 419., or the Regalicus remipes, Brunnich, ib. pi. B. f. 4. and 

 5. Bloch, Syst. pi. lxxxviii., copies and alters the figure of As- 

 canius. A better copy is Encycl. Method, f. 358. 



2 Gymnetrus Grittii, Lindroth, Nouv. Mem. de Stockh. xix. 

 pi. viii. 



3 Gymnetrus Russelii, Shaw iv. part ii. page 195. pi. xxviii. 

 Add the Gymnetrus Hctwkenii, if the figure be correct ; but the 



Regalec lanceole, or Ophidie chinoise, Lacep. I. xxii. 3., or the 

 Gymnetrus cepedianus, Shaw, does not belong to this genus. 



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