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LICHTA 



The body compressed, deep, slender towards the tail, which is forked. 

 A single dorsal and anal fin; opposite each oilier, and proceeding near 

 the tail. Free spines before the dorsal fin, the first of them pointing 

 forward. Free spines also before the anal fin. Ventral fins behind the 

 root of the pectorals. 



DERBIO. 



Glaucus, 



Glaucus primus Bondeletii. 



Scomber glaucus, 

 Lichia glaucus, 

 Caranx glauque, 

 Cetitronote glaicos, 

 Centronotiis hinotatus. 



JoKSTON; Table 1, f. 11. 



WiLLOUGHBY; p. 297, Table S. 15, f. 1. He 

 describes what Jonston represents the 

 dorsal spines united by a membrane, which 

 appears not to be the usual condition. In 

 Cuvier's figure there is a slip of membrane 

 to each spine. 



LiNNiEUS. 

 CUVIER. 



Lacepede, 



Eisso. Y.\RRELL; 2nd. Supplement, p. 23. 



Eafinesque. 



GuNTHER; Cat. Br. Museum, vol. ii, p. 477. 



It may be supposed that this fish obtained its ancient name 

 of Glaucus from its light or sea-blue colour, but it became also 

 the proper designation of the species, in the same manner as we 

 apply the name of blackbird to a well-known bird as peculiarly 

 its own, although there are others to which it may, as a des- 

 cription, be equally adapted. This fish was also called by an 

 analogous designation in Greek, but in the latter instance there 

 is much uncertainty in its application. Thus, in one place 

 Oppian speaks of a spf cies which he calls Glaucus, (Halieutics, 

 B. i, line 170,) which he associates with the Gilthead and 

 the other sorts of Sea Breams, as frequenting stony or sandy 

 ground, and this name the translator renders by the term 



