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but that from tlic little lieisjlit of the hody the idea derived from a side-view is that the 

 1)0(1}' is very slender, and the character of " corps trcs-lonji: " is, therefore, quite appro- 

 priate. Valenciennes probably did not take this fact into consideration when he 

 observed, in his description oi PimchtJm punduJntus, that the fomi was like that of the 

 Pimdodus catiis. 



We have thus united many nominal species. In c()n.sidering the species of Eafi- 

 nesqiie as identical, we have very little hesitation. We have much with regard to 

 those of Lesueiu- and Valenciennes, and it mi^ht, perhaps, have been better to pro- 

 visionally retain them as distinct. The other course has, however, been prefeired, as 

 no other species at all answering;- to their descriptions can be found. 



