322 THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 



Echineis naucrates, L. Syst., 1, p. 446, Hasselg., Iter. Palest., 

 ]). 324. Schcepff, Schrift., Gesselsch, Naturf. Freunde, Berlin 

 8, 3, p. 145. Bl. 2, p. 131, tab. 171. Bl. Sclm., p. 239. Lacep. 

 3, pp. 146-162, pi. 9, fig. 2. Shaw Zool. 4, p. 209, pi. 31. Cuv. 

 Regne. Anim. Storer Rep. Fish. Massach p. 153. Mich. Trans. 

 Lit. and Phil. Soc. New York 1, p. 377. Richards Faun. Bor. 

 Araer. 3, p. 266, and Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 11, 1843, p. 498. 

 Cant. Catal., p. 199. Faun. Japan. Pois., p. 270, p. 120, fig. 1. 

 Richards Ichthyolog. Chin., p. 203. Cuich. Explor. Alger. Poiss., 

 ]). 111. Webb and Berthall, lies Canar. Poiss., p. 87. Gunth. 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., May, 1860, p. 395. 



Echineis, sp. Gronov., Zoophyl, p. 75, No. 252, and Mus. 

 Ichthyol. 1, p. 13, No. 34. Klein Miss. Pise, 4, p. 41, No. 2. 

 Pegador, Parra, p. 94, pi. 36, fig. 2. 

 Ala Mottah, Russell, 1, p. 39, pi. 49. 

 Echineis albicanda, Mich. Am. Mon., Mag 2., p. 244. 



,, ,, lunata, Bancr. Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. 1, 



p. 134, and Zool. Jour. S, p. 411, pi. 18. 



„ Australis, Griff. Anim. Kingd., pi. — , p. 504 ; Bennett, 

 Whal. Voy. 2, p. 273. 



„ vittata, Lowe Proc. Zool. Soc, 1839, p. 89 ; 1850, 

 p. 252, and Trans. Zool. Soc, p. 17. 



„ vittata, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 82. 

 „ albicanda, Dekay N. York Faun., Fishes, p. 307, pi. 

 54, fig. 177. 



,, fusca, Gronov. Syst., ed. Gray, p. 92. 

 Skeleton, Agass., Recherches Poiss., Tass. 4, tab. G. 

 The above long list of references and synonyms is taken from 

 Giinther's Catalogue, and is no doubt very complete and correct. 

 It will give an idea of the great amount of interest which this 

 remarkable group of fishes has always excited among naturalists, 

 and also illustrates the many mistakes authors have fallen into 

 from their unacquaintance with the great diversity of appearance 

 in these fish at different periods of their growth. 



A number of large specimens, about thirty-two inches long, of 

 this species accumulated round the Chevert, when lying at anchor 



