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postice in forcipem, preoperculo inferne in aculeum simplicem 
desinente. (St. Olfersii, Cuv. 1. c.) 
Arc. HEMIGYMNUS, Cocco. Corpore angustiore, altitudine di- 
midium longitudinis (dempta pinna caudali) equante; parte 
postica (caudali) elongata; capitis longitudine altitudinem 
equante ; sterno postice in angulum simplex acutum, preoper- 
culo inferne in aculeos duos desinente. (Arg. hemigymnuus v. 
Sternoptyx mediterranea, Cocco et Buon. Faun. Ital. cum fig.) 
This extraordinary group of fishes offers many points of analogy 
with Berycide. 
Fam. Licup. 
3. TEMNopon vapiGco. (Lichia vadigo, Cuv. et Val. vii. 363. 
t. 235.) 
A single example was taken in February 1846, but it appeared to 
be quite unknown to the fishermen, and is therefore to be regarded 
as a mere straggler in these seas. 
If the genus Temnodon be retained, this fish has precisely the same 
claims to a place in it as the common “Anchova”’ of Madeira (7. sal- 
tator, Cuy. et Val.). 
Fam. ScomMBRID&. 
4. Scomser coxias (Gm.), Cuv. et Val. viii. 39. t. 209. (The 
Spanish Mackerel, Yarr, Brit. Fish. i. 131.) 
In April 1844, the market in Funchal was plentifully supplied with 
these fishes for two or three successive days, They were said to have 
been brought from Porto Santo. 
5. AUXIS VULGARIS, Cuy. et Val. viii. 139. t. 216. 
A single example, February 3, 1845. Not quite unknown to the 
fishermen, but its occurrence said to be a mere chance. 
6. PrLamys sArpA, Cuv. et Val. viii, 149. t. 217. 
October 27, 1844: asingle example, called “Sarda” by the fisher- 
men, to whom it is not absolutely unknown, though, like the last, of 
merely casual occurrence. 
Fam. T2NIOIDZ2. 
7. TRACHYPTERUS GRyPHURUS. Corpore elongato, macula poste- 
riore laterali spatio tertiam partem totius longitudinis equante 
a basi pinne caudalis amota; pinnarum radiis scabris ; linea 
laterali inermi, postice supra marginem ventralem desinente. 
With 
D.5+166; P.10 v.11; V.14+5; A.0; C.——; M.B.6. 
Intermediate between T. fala and T. iris(of Cuvier and Valen- 
ciennes’ ‘ Histoire,’ vol. x. pp. 333, 341 3) approaching, perhaps, near- 
est to the latter, but differing in its deeper shape ( D==> instead 
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