378 SCOMBRID^. 



the back ; the height of the body is about one-fourtli of the total 

 length ; tongue rough ; the anal and dorsal tins continued to th(^ 

 caudal. Colour grojnsh- brown. (Dald.) 

 Atlantic, between the tropics. 



4. Echeneis brachjrptera. 



Remora, Cateshy, Hist. Natw. South Carol, ii. p. 20. pi. 2(5. 



Echeneis ?, Lour, Trans. Zool. Sue. ii. p. 191. 



brachv-ptera, Loice, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 89, and Trans. Zool. 



Soc. p. 17 ; Giint.h. Ann. S,- May. Nat. Hist. May 18G0, p. 399. 

 sexdecim-lameUata, Eydoxx et Gervais, Vot/. de la Favorite, v. 



Zool. p. 77. pi. 31. 

 ? Echeneis quatuordecim-lamellatus, Storer, Report Fishes Massach. 



p. loo. 

 Ecneneis pallida, Ternm. ^ Schley. Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 271. pi. 120. 



f. 2, 3. 

 nieuhofii, Bleeh. Sumatra, ii. p. 279. 



D. (14) 15-16 (17) I 29-32. A. 25-27 (-30). 



The length of the disk is 3| to 4 times in the total, the width of 

 the body between the pectorals G| to 7 times. Caudal truncated. 

 The upper jaw angular, both intermaxillaries forming a rather ob- 

 tuse angle together. Coloration uniform. 



Sea of Madeira ; coasts of North America and of Brazil ; Japanese 

 and Chinese Seas ; Sea of Sumatra. 



a. Adult, with sixteen lamina). China. From the Haslar Collection. 

 h, c. Half-grown, with fift;cen lamina;. Brazil. Presentee' by J. I'. 

 G. Smith, Esq. 



5. Echeneia remora. 



Echeneis, Ovid. Halient. v. 99; Plin. xxxii. cap. 1, ix. cap. 25; JElian. 



i. cap. 36, ii. cap. 17; Wotton, De Differ, p. 149. 

 ^'Exfvrih, Plutarch, Sympos. lib. ii. ; Oppian. ILdleut. i. p. 9. 

 Remora, Rondel, xv. c. 18. p. 436; Petiver, (iazophyl. tab. 44. f. 12. 

 Zuiger, Nicuhoff, Bras. Zee- en Lant-Reize, ii. p. 274. f. 07. 

 Remora iniperati, Willuylihy, Appendix, p. 5. tab. 9. f. 2. 

 Sucking-tish, Edwards, G'lcaninys, no. 210; Penn. Brit. Zool. edit. 4. 



vol. iii. App. p. 524. 

 Echeneis remora, L. Syst. i. p. 440, and Amam. Acad. i. p. 320, and 



3fus. Rcy. Ad. Fred. i. p. 75 ; Osheck, Voy. China, p. 94 ; Scho(pJ^\ 



Schrift. Gesellseh. Naturf. Freunde Berlin, viii. 3. p. 145 ; Bl. li. 



p. 134. pi. 172; Bl. Sehn. p. 240; Laeep. iii. pp. 140, 147. pi. 9. f. 1; 



Cuv. Rhpie Anini.; Blnntenb. Ahhdd. taf. 78; Risso, lehth. Nice, 



p. 177, and Eur. Merid. iii. p. 2(59; Shaw, Zool. iv. p. 202. pi. 31; 



Midler, Prodr. Faun. Dan. no. 3(51 ; jllifeh. Trans. Lit. c)- Phd. 



Soc. New Yoi-k, i. p. 378; Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 94; Richards. 



Faun. Bar. yitner. p. 205 ; Fuber, Fische Islands, p. 1 15 ; Schley. 



Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 271; Dekay, New York Fauna, Fishes, p. ."){)9; 



Lotce in Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 16; Benn. Whnliny Voy. p. 271; 



Jetiyns, Zool. Beac/le, Fishes, p. 142; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, .'Ird cdil. 



i. p". 670; Giinth'. Ann. 8,- May. Nat. Hist. May IHOO, p. ;!90. 

 Echeneis, .sp., Klein, 3riss. iv. p. 51. no. 1; ^r'rontn: Zoophyl. y. 75. 



no. 256, and .l/'/.s. lehtln/ol. i. no. .'53. 



