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to some of our members. I also made a sketch from which I 

 have produced the one before you (Plate XX.). I was sorry 

 to find, on my second visit, that the fishermen had cut it up, 

 and thus prevented a photograph being taken. 



From what I could see of it, it was very different in aj)- 

 pearance from the sketch given of Sir Julius von Haast's 

 E. lKLcificus,\\\ vol. X., p. 248, and differed widely from his 

 written description, but very nearly coincided with that given 

 ])y Professor Parker in vol. xvi., p. 295. 



The dark anterior stripes, however, shown by Von Haast 

 were very similarly present, and, as shown on Plate XX., 

 were elongate and irregular both in length and direction, and 

 in no case posterior to the anus ; the last elongated stripe 

 occurring at almost exactly 36in. from the base of the ventral 

 fin, and thus 21in. anterior to the anus. From this point 

 posteriorly there were above the lateral line numerous more 

 or less circular patches of moderately dark colour, while 

 underneath the lateral line was a series of shghtly elongated 

 patches. This is worthy of note, since Professor Parker calls 

 attention to this grouping of the patches in Professor McCoy's 

 description, and calls them peculiar. Fortunately I had been 

 very careful in taking particular note of the position of these 

 markings. 



The anterior portion of the lateral line in Von Haast's 

 drawing is shown as gradually ascending long before it ap- 

 proaches the pectoral fins ; but in my specimen it began to 

 ascend much more acutely and very near to the pectoral fins, 

 cutting off the longitudinal bands in its ascending course along 

 the upper edge of the operculum. 



I now give my measurements, and, assuming it to be of 

 the same species as Professor Parker's, I speak of it as 



Eegalecus aegenteus. 



B.,6. D.,^. P., 12. 



7m. 



9in. 



Sin. 

 12-5in. 

 9ft. Sin. 



Head — 



Length (jaws retracted) 

 „ (jaws protruded) 

 Height, through the eye 

 Height of body, 2ft. from head 

 Length of body, as mutilated 



(I calculated about 3ft. to be missing : this 

 w^ould make the original length about 

 12ft., the height of the body at the fracture 

 being fully Gin.) 

 Diameter of eye ... ... ... ■•■ ••• I'Sin. 



Distance from ventral fins to anus ... ... 4ft. 9in 



