148 SCOMBRID.E. 



as to flesh : to which perhaps it might be owing that no trace appeared 

 of the ventral fin-stumps, except a dark scar-like spot, like an imperfectly 

 healed wound, with a fistulose orifice. The flesh had overgrown them, as 

 it also had completely the first of the two free anal spines. This indivi- 

 dual measured two feet and a half in length. 



