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CENTROLOPHUS. 



The body moderately compressed, lengthened, covered with very 

 small scales. Gape moderate. From the head, along the back, a 

 ridge, on which stands the single dorsal fin. Eye lateral. Ventral 

 fins thoracic. 



POMPILUS. 



BLACKFISH. 



Blackfish, Jonston; Table 3, f. 5. 



Coryphcena pompilus, Linn^us. 

 Centrolophus pompilus, 



and C. morlo, Cuvier, 



CoryplicBna pompile, Lacepede. Risso. 



" morio, Jenyns; Manual, p. 370. 



" " Tarrell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 179. 



" " GuNTHER; Cat. Br. Museum, vol. ii. 



Holocentre noir, Lacepede. 



The Reverend George Jago was the resident minister of 

 the Episcopal Chapel in East Looe, at the beginning of the 

 eighteenth century, and, while residing there, he employed the 

 favourable opportunities within his reach in making collections 

 for a work on the natural history of the fishes of Cornwall, 

 w^hich, however, he did not live to accomplish. He had made 

 known some of the fruits of his labour to the well-known 

 naturalist, Petiver, by whom they were communicated to Dr. 

 Derham, who inserted them as an appendix to the posthumous 

 "Synopsis" of the illustrious Eay. When Jago died, his MSS. 

 and drawings were left with his friend, Mr. Dyer, of East 

 Looe, in whose house he had lived; and by the last-named 

 gentleman they were handed over to Dr. Borlase, who at that 

 time was engaged in writing his "Natural History of the County 

 of Cornwall." The figure given by Borlase is small, but 



