PAINTED LABRUS. l.">7 



it is used to capture the wild horses of South Ame- 

 rica, will be read with interest. 



The species which possess this property are 

 mostly of clumsy or disgusting form, particularly 

 the torpedos. 



GALYANry TORPEDO, 



Torpedo Galvanic Rtpso, 



PLATE XXVI. 



Will show their form. According to our latest 

 British Ichthyology, the torpedo occurring on the 

 British coasts has scarcely been properly identified 

 with those of the continental seas ; but that which 

 we have given to represent the form is one of the 

 most powerfully supplied -mth galvanic influence. 



The fishes in which these electrical organs have 

 been unequivocally discovered, are, as before men- 

 tioned, the electric ray (Raja torpedo), now the 

 torpedo proper, the electric eel ( Gymnotus electri- 

 cusj, the Silia^us electricus, the Tetrodon electricus, 

 and the Trichiurus electricus, or Indicus, as it is 

 termed by some naturalists. 



Cams declares the electric orjran in these lislies 



