410 SCOMURID.E. 



scales ; cloft of the mouth narrow. A single dorsal fin ^vithout a 

 spinous portion ; no distinct anal spines ; vcntrals composed of many- 

 rays. Teeth none, liranchiostegals six ; air-bladder large, poste- 

 riorly bifurcate. Pyloric appendages in very great number. 

 Northern parts of the Atlantic ; Mediterranean. 



1. Lampris luna. 



Sibbahl, Scotia lUustr. pi. G. f. 3 (bad) ; Morthner, Philos. Trans, xlvi. 



p. 518. tab. 4 ; Stroem, Sceudnwr, i. p. 323. tab. 1. f. 20 ; 3mi. 



Prudr. Zool. Dan. p. 44. no. 370. 

 Opah sive Zeus opah, Pviui. Arct. Zool. Siippl. p. 119, and Brit. Zool. 



iii. p. 223. pi. 42, and edit. 1812, iii. p. 299. pi. 46 ; Sowerhy, Brit. 



Misc. pi. 22. 

 Poisson kme, Duhamel, Peches, iii. p. 74. tab. 17. 

 Scomber pelagicus, Giomer in Dranth. Sclsk. Skr. iv. p. 80. taf. 12. 

 ' f. 1 (not good). 

 Zeus luna, L. Gm. i. p. 1225; Bl. Schn. p. 90, Donor. Brit. Fishes, v. 



pi. 97. 

 giittatus, Briinn. in Danske Sclsk. Skr. Ny. Udg. 1788, iii. p. 398. 



tab. A ; Holten in Nntitrh. Selsk. Skr. v. p. 129; Fahcr, Fische Islands, 



p. 132. 

 Lampris guttatus, Retzins, I. c; Holten in Zool. Dan. iv. tab. 144; Cav. 



Si- Val. X. p. 39. pi. 282; Cur. liir/ne Anim. III. Poiss. pi. 01. f. 1; 



Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, i. p. 194; Parn. Fishes Frith of Forth, p. 03. 



pi. 27 ; Gaiin. Voj/. en Islande et an Groerd. Zool. Poiss. pi. 10. 

 Scomber gunnei'i, Bl. Schn. p. 38. 

 Chrysotosus luna, Lacep. iv. p. 58G. pi. 9. f. 3. 



Zeus imperialis, Shan; Nat. 3Iisc. iv. pi. 140, and Zool. iv. p. 289. pi. 42. 

 Lampris hma, liisso, Fur. 3Ierid. iii. p. 341. 

 Zeus guttatus, Richards. F(aai. Ror. Amcr. Fishes, p. 83. 

 ; L^nlpris lauta, Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 183, iii. p. 0, and P/'oc. 



Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 80, and Fishes of Madeira, p. 27. tab. 5. 

 Skeititon : Bakker, Osteoyr. Pise. 



!'. 0. D. 53-55. \. 38-41. V. 14-16. Vert. 20/23 or 23/22 or 



24/21. (Lowe.) 



The anterior part of the dorsal is produced into a more or less 

 long point ; anal low. Body with numerous white spots ; fins red. 

 Northern parts of the Atlantic ; Mediterranean. 



a. Three feet long : stuffed. Coast of Devonshire. 



I am unable to come to a decided opinion respecting the differences 

 between the description of Cuvicr and the most elaborate account 

 of Mr. Lowe. They may very well fall within the limits of individual 

 variation in a species of so large a .size as Lampris. Cuvier, however, 

 speaks of seven branchiostegals, whilst all the other obsei-vers have 

 found only six. The difference in locality cannot be considered as of 

 great value : the northern Scomber scomber is the same as the southern. 

 The single stuffed specimen in the British Museum does not give any 

 additional light ; it appears to agree better with Mr. Lowe's descrip- 

 tion than \\'ith Cu\ier's. 



