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and a desirable uniformity would be secured by Ichthyologists 

 adopting the nomenclature and numerals of the "Synonomy." I 

 shall be pleased, if by setting the example, I have contributed to 

 this end. Disagreement with the author's homologies might affect 

 the names but not the numbers applied to the several elements. 



The bones herein illustrated are as follows: — 



1. Vomer 



2. Ethmoid 



3. Prefrontal 



4. Frontal 



5. Sphenotic 



6. Parietal 



7. Epiotic 



8. Supraoccipital 



9. Pterotic 

 13. Parasphenoid 



17. Hyomandibular 



1 8. Symplectic 



19. Quadrate 



21. Palatine 



22. Mesopterygoid 



23. Metapterygoid 



24. Preopercle 



25. Opercle 



26. Subopercle 

 Our specimen of Luvarus is 



type was five feet in length, s 

 skeleton yields the following d 



Total length ... 

 Height of body 

 Length of head 

 Length of caudal 

 Base of dorsal fin 

 Base of anal fin 



As remarked by Day,'^ "The habits of Luvarus are scarcely 

 known : the young have been captured near the surface at sea. 

 Its intestines would seem to point to its being a vegetable feeder, 

 which probably does not live at any great depths in the ocean." 



Mr. Laycock's observation may throw a little light on the 

 suV)ject. The fish is evidently of pelagic habit, and when stranded 

 was apparently following up the strt-am of pelagic life which 

 engaged the attention of the Basking Shark, taken within a few 

 miles of the same locality and at the same time. As I have 

 described (p. 261), this pelagic flux consisted largely of Munida 



5 Day— Fishes Gt. Britain and Ireland, i., 1880-4., p. 122. 



