384 SCOMBBID-B. 



1<). Echeneis naiicrates. 



Echeneis s. Remora, Aldrovdiuli, iii. cap. 22. p. 3;^) ; Jonstou, Tlmu- 

 mutocjr. i. tit. 1. cap. 2. art. 4. tab. 4. f. 3, tab. 39. f. 8 ; 3Lirc</r. Iter 

 lints, p. 180 ; ? Gottorff. Kundknmmer, tab. 2o. f. 2 ; Wi/Ini/Zibi/, 

 p. 119. tab. (i. 8. f. 2 ; Hay, Si/n. p. 71; Ruysclt, Thcutr. Univ. 

 p. 7. tab. 4. 1". 3, tab. 39. f. 8; Svhu, iii. p. 103. tab. 33. f."2; l)a- 

 tertre, Hist. Gen. cics Anfil/es, ii. p. 299. fig. opp. p. 222 ; Brown, 

 Hist. Jamaica, p. 44.3. 



iiaucrates, L. Si/st. i. p. 44(5 ; Hasselq. Iter Palest, p. 324 (Ger- 

 man edit. p. 371); Schoepjf, ^e/irift. Geselhch. Nafurf. Freioi'le 

 Berlin, \m. 3. p. 14."3 ; Bl. ii. p. 131. tab. 171 ; Bl. Se'/in. p. 239 ; 

 Lacep. iii. pp. 14G, 102. pi. 9. f. 2; Shaiv, Zool iv. p. 209. pi. 31 ; 

 Cuv.'- liefpie Anim. \ Storer, Hep. Fishes Massaeli. p. Iij3 ; Mitch, 

 Trans. Lit. ^ Pliil. Soc. Neiv York, i. p. 377 ; Richards. Faun. Bur. 

 Atner. iii. p. 2GG, ami Ann. ^- May. Nat. Hist. xi. 184.3, p. 498 ; 

 Cantor, Catal. p. 199 ; Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 270. pi. 120. f. 1 ; 

 Richards. Ichthyol. China, p. 203 * ; Gaichen. Explor. Alyer. Poiss. 

 p. Ill ; Webb S,- Berthel. lies Canar. Poiss. p. 87; Gunih. Ann. ^ 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. May 18(50, p. 395. 



, sp., Gronov. Zoophyl. p. 76. no. 252, and Mu^. Ichthyol. i. p. 13. 



no. 34; Klein, Miss. Pise. iv. p. 51. no. 2. 



Peo-ador, Parra, p. -94. pi. 3(). f. 2 (not good). 



Ala Mottah, Russell, i. p. 39. pi. 49. 



EcheneLs albicauda, Mitch. Am. Month. May. ii. p. 244. 



lunata, Baiicroft, Proc. Comni. Zool. Soc. i. p. 134, and Zool. 



Journ. V. p. 411. pi. 18 (not i?ood). 



australis, Griff. Anim. Kingd. Pise. pi. opp. p. 504 ; Bennett, 



Whaling Vo)/a(/e, ii. p. 273. 



vittata, Lou-e, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 89, 18.50, p. 252, and 



Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 17. 



vittata, Riipp. N W. Fische, p. 82. 



albicauda, pt., Dekay, New York Faun. Fishes, p. 307. pi. 54. f. 177. 



fusca, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 92. 



Skeleton : Agass. Recherchcs Poiss. Foss. iv. tab. G. 



D. (21) 22-25 (26) j 33-41. A. 32-38. Vert. 14/16. 



The length of the disk is 4|-4f in the total, or twice the width of 

 the body between the pectorals. Caudal subcresccntic in mature, 

 more or less convex in immature, and with the middle portion ex- 

 ceedingly produced in young specimens. Jlouth rounded, with the 

 lower jaw pointed. Brown ; generally a blackish band, edged with 

 whitish, from the snout, through the eye, along the side of the body 

 and the tail. Sometimes uniform, sometimes irregular blotches in- 

 stead of the band. 



Seas of the temperate and tropical regions. 



I. Suctonal disk with twenty-one pairs of laminae. 



a. Eight inches long. North coast of Australia. Antarctic Expe- 

 dition.— The middle portion of the caudal considerably produced. 



II, Suctorial disk mth twenty-two or twenty-three laminae. 



h. Fine specimen : skeleton. Madeira. Presented by J. G. Johnson, 

 Esq. 



* One of the most valuable obscrvntions of Sir J. Richardson. 



