378 SCOMBRIDvE. 



the back ; the height of the body is about one-fourth of the total 

 length ; tongue rough ; the anal and dorsal tins continued to the 

 caudal. Colour greyish-brown. (Dald.) 

 Atlantic, between the tropics. 



4. Echeneis brachyptera. 



Remora, Cateshy, Hist. Nntur. South Carol, ii. p. 26. pi. 26. 



Echeneis ?, Lowe, Tram. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 191. 



brach^-ptera, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 89, and Trans. Zool. 



Soc. p. 17_; Gilnth. Ann. Sf 3Iag. Nat. Hist. May 1860, p. 399. 

 sexdecim-lamellata, Eydoux et Gervais, Voy. de la Favorite, v. 



Zool. p. 77. pi. 31. 

 ? Echeneis quatuordecim-lamellatus, Storer, Rvjiort Fishes Massach. 



p. 155. 

 Echeneis pallida, Tcmm. ^ Schlen. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 271. pi. 120. 



f. 2, 3. 

 nieuhofii, Bleek. Sumatra, ii. p. 279. 



D. (14) 15-16 (17) I 29-32. A. 25-27 (-30). 



The length of the disk is 3| to 4 times in the total, the width of 

 the body between the pectorals 6| to 7 times. Caudal truncated. 

 The upper jaw angular, both intermaxillaries forming' a rather ob- 

 tuse angle together. Coloration imiform. 



Sea of Madeira ; coasts of North America and of Brazil ; Japanese 

 and Chinese Seas ; Sea of Sumatra. 



a. Adult, with sixteen laminae. China. Prom the Haslar Collection. 

 h, c. Half-grown, with fifteen lamina. Brazil. Presented by J. P. 

 G. Smith, Esq. 



5. Echeneis remora. 



Echeneis, Ovid. Halieut. v. 99; Plin. xxxii. cap. 1, ix. cap. 25; ^lian. 



i. cap. 36, ii. cap. 17 ; Wotton, De Differ, p. 149. 

 ''Ex^vrjts, Plutarch, Sympos. lib. ii. ; Opjnan. Halieut. i. p. 9. 

 Remora, Romlel. xv. c. 18. p. 436 ; Petiver, Gazojihyl. tab. 44. f. 12. 

 Zuiger, Nieuhoff, Bras. Zee- en Lant-Reize, ii. p. 274. f. 67. 

 Remora impeiati, Willuyhby, Appendix, y. 5. tab. 9. f. 2. 

 Siicking-fisli , Fdu-ards, Gleanings, no. 210; Penn. Brit. Zool. edit. 4. 



vol. iii. A2}p. p. 524. 

 Echeneis remora, L. Syst. i. p. 446, and Amcen. Acad. i. p. 320, and 



Mus. Reg. Ad. Fred. i. p. 75 ; Osheck, Voy. China, p. 94 ; Schoepff, 



Schrift. Gesellsch. Naturf. Freunde Berlin, viii. 3. p. 145 ; Bl. ii. 



p. 1.34. pi. 172; Bl. Schn. p. 240; Lacep. iii. pp. 146, 147. pi. 9. f. 1; 



Cuv. Recpie Anim. ; Blumenh. Ahbild. taf. 78 ; Risso, Lchfh. Nice, 



p. 177, and Fur. Mcrid iii. p. 269 ; Shaw, Zool. iv. p. 202. pi. 31 ; 



llidler, Prodr. Faun. Dan. no. 361 ; 3Iitch. Trans. Lit. S^- Phil. 



Soc. Netc York, i. p. 378 ; Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 94 ; Richards. 



Faun. Bor. Amer. p. 265; Faber, Fische Lslands, p. 115; Schleg. 



Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 271; Dckay, New York Fauna, Fishes, p. 309; 



Lou-c in Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 16 ; licnn. Wludiny Voy. p. 271 ; 



Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, p. 142 ; Yarrrll, Brit. Fishes, 3rd edit. 



i. p. 670 ; Giinth'. Ann. <§• 3Iag. Nat. Hist. May 1860, p. 390. 

 Echeneis, sp., Klein, Miss. iv. p. 51. no. 1; Gronov. Zoophyl. p. 75. 



no. 256, and Mvs. Irhthi/ol. i. no. 33. 



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