512 xiPiniD^. 



Report, p. 51 ; Yarrcll, Brit. Fishes, i. p. 164 ; Parn, Fishes Frith 

 of Forth, ^. 55; Cur. Sk/ne Amm. Ill Poiss. pi. 50. f. 1, pi. 51. f. 2, 

 pi. 53. f. 2 ; Demid. Voy. Puss. Merid. iii. p. 39.3 ; Guichcn. Explor, 

 Alger. Poiss. p. 60 ; Dehay, New York Fauna, Fishes, p. Ill ; Lowe, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 5. 



Cetti, Hist. Sard. iii. pp. 93, 94, 145 ; Dtiham. ix. p. 334 ; Hannaus 

 in lyphem. Nat. Cur. dec. ii. ann. 7. obs. 107, and Hartm. ibid. 

 dec. iii. ann. 2. 



Sicilian Sword-fish, Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. p. 216. pi. 30 j Ktiox in 

 Edinb. Journ. Nat. Sf Geol. Sc. ii. p. 427. 



Xipliias rondeletii, Leach in Wern. Mem. ii. 58. pL 2. f. 1, and Zool. 

 Misc. i. p. 62. pi. 27. 



Skeleton : Rosenth. Ichthyot. Taf. t. 21 ; Cuv. 8f Val. ix. pi. 231. 



D. ^. A. 17. Vert. 14/12. 



The .sword-shaped upper jaw much depressed and flat. Dorsal fin 

 elevated in immatui'e specimens ; in old specimens the middle part 

 of the dorsal and anal fins becomes very low or disappears, so that 

 there are two fins on the back and behind the vent. 



European Seas ; Western and Northern coasts of Africa ; found 

 also on the other side of the Atlantic. 



a. Seven feet long : stuffed. Margate. 

 6. Half-grown : stuffed. 



c. Upper jaw of a large specimen. 



d. Six inches long : not good state. Caught in Long. W. 22°, Lat. 



N. 2°. Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq. 



2. XipMas velifer. 



? Makaira nigTicans, Lacep. iv. pp. 688, 689. pi. 13. f. 3 ; Cuv. ^ Val, 



viii. p. 287. 

 ? Xiphias makaira, Shaw, Zool. iv. p. 104. 

 Histiophorus gracilirostris. Cue. 8f Val. viii. p. 308. 

 Machsera velifera, Cuv. Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1832, p. 43. pi. 3 ; 



Criv. R^yne Anim. III. Poiss. pi. 52. f. 1. 



D. 45 I 7. A. 12 I 7. 



The dorsal is much higher than the body. The produced part of 

 the upper jaw is slender, rather depressed. Dermal productions 

 lanceolate. Dorsal with series of round black spots between the 

 spines. 



Atlantic. 



2. HISTIOPHORUS*. 



Istiophorus, Lacep. iii. p. 374. 

 Notistiuni, Herm. Ohserv. Zool. p. 305. 

 Tetrapturus, (Rajinesque) Cuv. 8f Val. viii. p. 280. 

 Histiophorus, Cuv. S)- Val. viii. p. 291. 



Body rather compressed and elongate ; the upper jaw much pro- 



* 1. Histiophorus ancipitirostris, Cuv. iSc Val. viii. p. 309. 



2. Tetrapturus georgii, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 36, and Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. iii. 1849.— Madeira. 



