VAAGMAEU. 



191 



ACANTHOPTEBYGII. 



BIBAND-SHAPED. 



THE VAAGMAER, OR DEALFISH. 



Gi/mnetrns arcticus, 

 Gymnogaster ,, 

 Bi}gmarits Islandiciis, 

 Gymnetriis ai-cticus, 



Vogmarus Islandiciis, 



CuviER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 219. 



Brunnich. 



Schneider, p. 518, pi. 101. 



Vaagmaer, or Dealjish, Flem. Mag. Nat. Hist, vol iv. 



p. 215, fig. 34. 

 Reinhardt's Vangm(Ere. * , 



Dr. Fleming has published, in the Magazine of Natural 

 History above quoted, an account and description of this 

 interesting addition to the catalogue of British Fishes, and 

 appears to be the only British naturalist who has made 

 known its occurrence in Scotland. The specimens obtained, 

 hoAvever, were either so mutilated, or so imperfectly pre- 

 served, that the author in his paper was induced to doubt 

 the propriety of retaining this species in the genus Gymne- 

 trus, and proposed to restore it, as a fish having no ventral 

 fins, to its original station in the genus Gymnogaster of 

 Brunnich. 



A recent notice of the Vaagmaer, or Vaogmsere, as it is 

 there called, appeared in the Institut, or Journal General 

 des Societes et Travaux Scientijiquesy* a French periodical 



* Paris, tome ii. 1834, p. 158 and 193. 



