8. ECHENEIS. 385 



c. Half-grown : stuffed. West Indies. Purchased of Mr. Scrivener. 

 (1. Twenty-five inches long : skin. Jamaica. From Dr. Parnell's 



Collection. 

 e. Half-grown. Texas. Purchased of Mr. Brandt. 

 /. Adult. Bahia. 



g. Adult : bad state. Seychelles. From the Haslar Collection. 

 h. Half-grown: skin. SeaofPinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 i. Young. China Seas. Presented by Captain Sir E. Belcher, C.B. 

 Tc. Adult : stuffed. India. From the Collection of the East India 



Company. 

 I. Young. Australia. From Mr. Dring's Collection. 

 m. Thirty-two inches long : stuffed. From the Collection of the 



Zoological Society. 

 n. Large specimen. Presented by Lieut. Strickland. 



0. Large specimen. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 

 p. Half-grown: stuffed. From the Collection ofthe East India Company. 

 q-s. Half-grown and young. Old Collection. 



t. Half-grown. Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq. 

 u. Half-grown: skin. From Gronow's Collection. 



III. Suctorial disk with twenty-four laminae. 



V, IV. Half-grown. Tenasserim. Presented by Dr. Packman. 



X, y. Fine specimens. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



z. Half-grown. China. Presented by J. E,. Eeeves, Esq. 



a. Half-gro-\vn. China. Presented by J. R. Eeeves, Esq. 



/3. Half-grown. China. Presented by Sir J, Eichardson. 



y. Adult: stuffed. Japan. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



j. Adult : stuffed. Port Essington. From Mr. Gould's Collection. 



e. Young: bad state. Port Essington. From the Haslar Collection. 



^. Half-grown. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



jj. Adult : stuffed : bad state. Old Collection. 



Q. Adult : stuffed. Purchased of Mr. Argent. 



t. Adult: stuffed. Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



IV. Suctorial disk Avith twenty-five laminae. 



K. Adult : stuffed. West Indies. Purchased of Mr. Scrivener. 



\, fx. Six inches long. New Guinea. Presented by Mrs. Stanley. — 



The middle portion of the caudal considerably produced. 

 V. Young: skin. SeaofPinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



1. Adult: not good state. South Sea. From the Haslar Collection, 

 o. Total length 4 inches : the produced part of the caudal 1| inch. 



California. Purchased of IVIr. Stevens. 

 The structure of the skull and of the vertebral column is very 

 similar to that of ^. remora; the bones are a Uttlo more elongate, 

 and the praefrontal forms the entire upper margin of the orbit ; the 

 foramen between the prasfrontal and principal frontal is small. There 

 are fourteen abdominal and sixteen caudal vertebrae, the length of 

 the former portion of the vertebral column being to that of the latter 

 as 1 : 1-67. The caudal vertebras are compressed and elongate. 



