320 THE GENERIC NAME OP TUNNY. 



speci6cally and with malice prepense resurrected and proposed for re- 

 tention by Cooper, it must surely be retained forthegenus comprising: 

 ilu' 'runny and Albieore. It belongs to a category of which there are 

 many illustrations, being an anagram of another name, and numerous 

 such have been proposed deliberately and generally adopted, such as 

 Panulirtts and Linvparus, anagrams of J '((Unions, and various others. 



If it is represented that the word Orycnus is merely due to a slip of 

 the pen or typographical error, and therefore should not We retained, 

 wo can, in reply, refer for an analogous retention of an incorrect form 

 to no less an authority than Professor Jordan. In the tilth edition of 

 Ins excellent work, "A Manual of the Vertebrate A niuuils of the North- 

 ern United Slates," published a couple of months ago (1888, p. 92), we 

 find the word Athlennes, which was originally proposed in LiSG as a 

 designation for the Belone Mans of Cuvier and Valenciennes. As we 

 suspected at the time of publication, this name is really derived from 

 an ancient Greek synonym of the common Belone belone of Europe, 

 u a/?/£wij?, without mucosity." 



Nevertheless, in a foot-note to the Manual we are informed that "this 

 name was inadvertently printed i Atltlc)l>t<^x, , and may remain so; '■Ah- 

 lennes 1 was intended." Surely, then, in strict analogy with such usage, 

 the name Orycnus can be retained as the generic designation of the 

 Tunny. 



