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the Sards and Romans. At Nice its name is lecco, and, 

 according to Rafinesque, its Sicilian appellations are cio- 

 nana, ciodena and ciodera. Cuvier received specimens 

 from various Atlantic localities, Algesiras, Madeira, Tene- 

 riffe, Goree, Ascension, Saint Helena, the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and from Brazil, not to be distinguished from the 

 Mediterranean ones. It may possibly be, as Forster inti- 

 mates, the Sea-blueling or Silver-fish of the West Indies, 

 but we have seen no example from that quarter. It occurs 

 in the Rev. R. T. Lowe's list of Madeira fish, under the 

 local names of Ranhosa, Toonbeta, and Pelumbeta, and is 

 said to be extremely common at that island. It belongs 

 to the same tribe of Scomberoids, with free dorsal spines, 

 as Naucrates, that is, to the Centronoti of LacSpede. 



Notwithstanding its extensive southern range, it seems 

 to wander rarely into the more northern parts of the 

 Atlantic. It is not mentioned by French ichthyologists 

 as having been captured on the western coasts of their 

 country ; and Mr. Couch, to whose industry and acute 

 discrimination British Ichthyology owes so much, is the 

 only person who has procured an English specimen. That 

 solitary example is carefully preserved in the Museum of 

 the Natural History Society of Penzance, and we have 

 not had an opportunity of seeing it, but through the 

 kindness of Dr. Gray, of the British Museum, we have 

 been enabled to compare two excellent photographs of 

 the specimen with the figures given in the Histoire des 

 Poissons, and in Webb and Bertholet's Histoire Naturelle 

 des Isles Canaries. (Poiss. pi. 13.) With the latter the 

 photograph agrees so closely as to leave no doubt of the 

 specific identity of the fish they represent, and the former 

 differs merely in the lateral line, being a little more un- 

 dulated anteriorly. The lateral spots are not exhibited in 

 the photograph, its prototype being, probably, too young 



