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c. Half-growni : stuffed. West Indies. Purchased of Mr. Scrivener. 

 '/. Twenty-five inches long : skin. Jamaica. From Dr. Parnell's 



Collection. 

 e. Half-grown. Texas. Purchased of Mr. Brandt. 

 /. Adult. Eahia. 



g. Adult : bad state. Seychelles. From the Haslar Collection, 

 h. Half-grown : skin. SeaofPinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 ?. Young. China Seas. Presented by Captain Sir E. Belcher, C.B. 

 k. Adult : stuffed. India. From the Collection of the East India 



Company. 

 I. Young. Australia. From Mr. Diing's Collection. 

 m. Thii-ty-two inches long : stuffed. From the Collection of the 



Zoological Society. 

 n. Large specimen. Presented by Lieut. Strickland. 

 0. Large specimen. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 

 }:>. Half-grown: stuffed. From the Collection ofthe East India Company. 

 q-s. Half-gro%vn and young. Old Collection. 

 t. Half-gro^v^l. Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq. 

 u. Half-grown : skin. From Gronow's Collection. 



III. Suctorial disk with twenty-four laminae. 



V, IV. Half-grown. Tenasserim. Presented by Dr. Packman. 



X, y. Fine specimens. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



z. Half-grown. Cliina. Presented by J. li. lleeves, Esq. 



a. Half-grown. China. Presented by J. K. Ileeves, Esq. 



/3. Half-grown. China. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



y. Adult : stuffed. Japan. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



h. Adult : stuffed. Port Essington. From Mr. Gould's Collection. 



e. Young: bad state. Port Essington. From the Haslar Collection. 



^. Half-grown. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



jj. Adult : stuffed : bad state. Old Collection. 



d. Adult : stuffed. Purchased of Mr. Argent. 



t. Adult: stuffed. Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



IV. Suctorial disk with twenty-five laminae. 



K. Adult : stuffed. West Indies. Piu-chased of Mr. Scrivener. 



\, ;t. Six inches long. New Guinea. Presented by Mrs. Stanley. — 



The middle portion of the caudal considerably produced. 

 V. Young: skin. SeaofPinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 I. Adult : not good state. South Sea. From the Haslar CoUeetion. 

 o. Total length 4 inches : the produced part of the caudal 1| inch. 



California. Purchased of Mr. Stevens. 



The structure of the skull and of the vertebral column is very 

 similar to that of E. remora ; the bones are a little more elongate, 

 and the prajfrontal forms the entire upper margin of the orbit ; the 

 foramen between the praefrontal and principal frontal is small. There 

 arc fourteen abdominal and sixteen caudal vertebrae, the length of 

 the former portion of the vertebral column being to that of the latter 

 as 1 : 1-67. The caudal vertebrae are compressed and elongate. 



