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detached, and of a beautiful silvery sheen. The 

 back is glossy black, or nearly so ; the under parts 

 also darker, but relieved by a number of remarkable 

 luminous spots, largest under the thorax, forming a 

 double line as far as the vent, and thence to the tail 

 fin single ; but the various figures show considerable 

 departures from this arrangement. A full descrip- 

 tion of the Arctic specimen before referred to was 

 sent by Mr. Day to Nature for the 14th of October 

 1886, to which I must refer you for a more particular 

 account ; but Norfolk naturalists are much indebted 

 to Mr. Patterson for so interesting an addition to 

 the marine fauna of the county." 



Three others were found by a friend of mine on 

 the north beach on 24th February 1890. Day's 

 remark, that " they are generally found thrown on 

 the shore after bad weather," is confirmed in this 

 instance by the fact that just before a stiff gale had 

 raged along the coast. Mr. Southwell, to whom they 

 were submitted for examination, replied, "Your 

 young friend's fishes are certainly the rare Scopelus. 

 It, like many other inconspicuous things, probably is 

 not so rare as is generally supposed ; it wants find- 

 ing, and it is not everybody who would care for such 

 a small beast when found. They are in wretched 



