384 scombritle. 



10. Echeneis naucrates. 



Echeneis s. Remora, Aldroramli, iii. cap. 22. p. 335 ; Jonston, Tliuit- 

 matogr. i. tit. 1. cap. 2. art. 4. tab. 4. f. 3, tab. 39. f. 8 ; Marctp: Iter 

 Bras. p. 180 ; ? Gotturff. Kunstkammer, tab. 25. f. 2 ; lViUi((j]thy, 

 p. 119. tab. G. 8. f. 2 ; Ray, Si/n. p. 71 ; Ruysch, Theatr. tfuiv. 

 p. 7. tab. 4. f. 3, tab. 39. f. 8 ; Si-ha, iii. p. 103. tab. 33. t 2 ; Du- 

 tertre, Hist. Gen. des Antilles, ii. p. 299. lig. opp. p. 222 ; Brown, 

 Hist. Jamaica, p. 443. 



naucrates, L. Syst. i. p. 446 ; Hasselq. Iter Palest, p. 324 (Ger- 

 man edit. p. 371) ; Schoepff, Schrift. Gesellsch. Nafiirf. Freunde 

 Berlin, viii. 3. p. 145 ; Bl. ii. p. 131. tab. 171 ; Bl. Sc'hn. p. 239 ; 

 Lacep. iii. pp. 146, 162. pi. 9. f. 2 ; Shaw, Zool. iv. p. 209. pi. 31 ; 

 Cuv. Reyne Anim. ; Storer, Rep. Fishes Massach. p. 153 ; Mitch. 

 Trans. Lit. Sf Phil. Soc. Neto York, i. p. 377 ; Richards. Faun. Bor. 

 Amer. iii. p. 266, and Ann. !^ May. Nat. Hist. xi. 1843, p. 498 ; 

 Cantor, Catal. p. 199 ; Faun. Jap'on. Poiss. p. 270. pi. 120. f. 1 ; 

 Richards. Ichthyol. China, p. 203 * ; Guichen. Explor. Alyer. Poiss. 

 p. Ill ; Wehh &,• Berthel. lies Canar, Poiss. p. 87; Giinth. Afin. Sf 

 May. Nat. Hist. May 1800, p. 395. 



, sp., Gronov. Zoophyl. p. 75. no. 252, and 3It(s. Ichthyol. i. p. 13. 



no. 34 ; Klein, Miss. Pise. iv. p. 51. no. 2. 



Pegador, Parra, p. 94. pi. 36. f. 2 (not good). 



Ala Mottab, Russell, i. p. 39. pi. 49. 



Echeneis albicauda, Mitch. Am. Month. May. ii. p. 244. 



lunata, Bancroft, Proc. Comni. Zool. Soc. i. p. 134, and Zool. 



Joiirn. V. p. 411. pi. 18 (not good). 



australis, Griff. Anim. Kinyd. Pise. pi. opp. p. 504 ; Bennett, 



TFJialiny Voyage, ii. p. 273. 



vittata, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 89, 1850, p. 252, and 



Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 17. 



vittata, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 82. 



albicauda, pt., I)ekay, New York Faun. Fishes, p. 307. pi. 54. f. 177. 



fusca, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 92. 



Skeleton : Ayass. Recherches Poiss. Foss. iv. tab. G. 



D. (21) 22-25 (26) | 33-41. A. 32-38. Vert. 14/16. 



The length of the disk is 4|-4|- in the total, or twice the width of 

 the body between the pectorals. Caudal snbcrescentic in mature, 

 more or less convex in immature, and with the middle portion ex- 

 ceedingly produced in young specimens. Mouth rounded, with the 

 lower jaw pointed. Brown : generally a blackish band, edged with 

 whitish, from the snout, through the eye, along the side of the body 

 and the taU. Sometimes uniform, sometimes irregular blotches in- 

 stead of the band. 



Seas of the temperate and tropical regions. 



I. Suctorial disk with twenty-one pairs of laminae. 



a. Eight inches long. North coast of Australia. Antarctic Expe- 



dition. — The middle portion of the caudal considerably produced. 



II. Suctorial disk with twenty-two or twenty-three laminae. 



b. Fine specimen : skeleton. Madeira. Presented by J. G. Johnson, 



Esq. 



* One of the most valuable observations of Sir J. Eichardson. 



