1. TEACH yPTEKUS. 305 



are no other rudiinentaiy rays below it. Lateral line armed, and 

 running as in T. taenia, but terminating in a series of about five 

 imbricate spines on the lower part of the extremity of the tail. The 

 edge of the beUy without any tubercles or papillae. The vent is 

 situated before the middle of the total length. Silvery: a very 

 distinct black spot at the commencement of the second fifth of the 

 total length ; there is a second, very indistinct spot, which, if pre- 

 sent at all, appears to be situated after the commencement of the 

 second fifth of the length. 

 Mediterranean. 



A specimen from the Mediterranean, fifty-one inches long, and 

 comparatively in a good state of preservation, has been presented to 

 the British Museum by Dr,yE. Riippell as Bognuerus aristoteli^, llisso. 

 The dorsal crest and the pectoral and ventral fins are mutilated, as is 

 usual in those fishes. The following are the measurements : — 



inches. 



Total length C without caudal fin) 51 



Caudal fin 5| 



Height of the body 6 



Length of one of the middle dorsal rays 2| 



Distance of the snout from the vent 24 



Distance of the snout from the anterior dorsal 



spot 10 



Distance of the snout from the posterior dorsal 



spot 22 



9. Trachyptems arcticus. 

 The I eal-fish. 



VogD.eri or Vaagmar, OAz/s. Islmid. Meise, § 684. tab. 43. 

 Gymaogaster arcticus, Briinn. Nye Saml. Damk. Videmk. Selsk. Skr. 



iii. p. 408. tab. B. tigs. 1-5; Faber, FischeJsl. p. 06; Nilss. Prodr. 



p. 107 ; WaU). Artedi, iii. pi. 3 (cop. from Br'dnnich). 

 Bogmarus islandicus, Bl. Schn. p. 518. tab. 101. 

 Gymnetrus arcticus, Cuv. Regne Anim. ; Fletn. Maq. Nat. Hist. iv. 



p. 215. fig. 34 ; Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 372. 

 Trachypterus bogmarus, Ciiv. 8r Val. x. p. 346 ; Yarr. Brit. Fishes, 1st 



edit. i.p. 191, 2nd edit. i. p. 210, 3rd edit. ii. p. 282; Barker, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1851, pp. 116, 119; Gaimard,Voy. Isl. etGronl. Zool.Poiss. 



pi. 12. 

 vogmarus, Reinh. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. vii. D. p. 71, cum fig. ; 



Liljeborq, Of vers, af Vet. Akad. Fork. 1849, p. 33 ; Diinuid in Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1851, p. 116. 

 Vogmarus islandicus, Reid, Ann. &■ Maq. Nat. Hist. iii. 1849, p. 456. 



pi. 16. 

 Trachypterus arcticus. Nilss. Skand. Faun. Fisk. p. 162. 



B. 6. D. 172 (160 Nilss.). A. 0. C. 8/? P. 10-11. V. 6. 



The greatest depth of the body is at its middle, and contained five 

 times and a half in the total length ; dorsal rays smooth ; lateral 

 line spiny ; a series of two blackish blotches on the side of the body. 



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