The Rev. R. T. Lowe on the Fishes of Madeira, 419 



1st, D. 2 -f- 10; 2nd, D. rudimentary; A. 2 + 21 (+8 de- 

 tached depressed points or spines) ; P. 15 or 16 ; V. 1 -f 5 ; 



4+T+lx . 

 *^- 3 _|_ I .-)_ VIII 



Fam. Gadid^. 



Macrourus atlanticus. — " Praga" or *' Lagartixa do mar" — 



M. fusco-cinereus, dorso vinoso, gutturis umbilico pinnisque ven- 



tralibus atris : squamis areolato-scaherrmis, echinalatis , ecarina- 



tis, inermibus : oculis maximis. 



M. mpestris, nob. in Synops. Mad. Fish, p. 190, nee Bl. nee Cuv. 



et omiss. syn. Lepidoleprus coelorhynchus, Risso. 



On further examination, this most singular fish appears to be quite 

 distinct from M. rupestris, Bl. t. 177; and therefore, according to 

 Cuvier (R. Anim. 2nd Ed. ii. 337, note,) from Lepidoleprus ccelo- 

 rhynchus, Risso, through which indeed alone I had referred it to the 

 northern fish described by Bloch. But besides the points included 

 in the specific character, the first ray of the first dorsal fin is neither 

 serrate nor stronger than the rest. The diameter of the eye is one 

 twelfth or one thirteenth part of the whole length, which scarcely 

 exceeds one foot. 



Fam. PLEURONECTIDiE. 



Rhombus cristatus. R. corpore oblong o-elliptico : oculis ap- 

 proximatis : dentibus tenuibus pectinatis ; in maxilla superiors 

 uniseriatis ; in inferiore anguste scobinatis : pinna; dorsalis dimidii 

 anterioris radiis apice liberis ; primordialibus (2^° 6™.) productis, 

 elongatis : latere (sinistro) fusco, immaculato : squamis {haud de- 

 ciduis) magnis, margine scabris. 



D. 92 ; A. 75 ; V. 6 ; P. 1 + 9 ; C. |^. Rariss. 



The WhifF of British authors (R,megastoma, Yarr. 2. 251) appears 

 the nearest ally of this apparently new species. Indeed, except for 

 Mr. Yarrell's more detailed account, I should have scarcely perhaps 

 scrupled referring it to " La Cardine ou Calimande" of Cuvier's R. 

 Anim. 2. 341, of which he says, *'ses premiers rayons sont libres" ; 

 of course meaning of the dorsal fin. Nothing is, however, discern- 

 ible of this in either Mr. Yarrell's figure or description of *' The 

 WhifF" ; nor even, if correct, does it express sufiiciently the peculi- 

 arity of this part in the Maderan fish. The only individual which 

 has yet occurred was five and a quarter inches long. 



Fam. Cyclopterid^. 



43. Lepadogasterzebrinus. — " Chupa sangue." L. fusco -nigreS' 

 cens, lateribus postice strigis obliquis, nuchaque fasciis diver^ 



