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GYMNOTUS. 



Of this remarkable and far-famed form two ex- 

 amples occur, one the G. electricus,* the other a 

 small species of a dark colour, and crossed with 

 black diagonal bands. The notes relating to either, 

 we regret to say, are extremely scanty, and no 

 mention is made, either of any aversion in the na- 

 tives to secure them, or of any particular mode of 

 capture employed by them. 



* See account of its electric properties, from Humboldt, 

 given in Vol. XXVII. of the " Naturalist's Library," and which 

 the Vignette Title of our present Volume is intended to 

 illustrate. 



