MACROURUS. IMMINSET. 



Generic Character. 



Caput grande : oculi magni. 11 Head large : eyes large. 

 Corpus postice attenuatum Body at the hind part at 

 in caudam. tenuated into the tail. 



LONG-TAILED-4MMINSET. 



Macrourus Rupestris. M. argenteo-cinereus, squamis carinatis, 



pinuce dorsalu prioris radio primo retro-dentato. 

 Silvery-grey Imminset, with carinated scales, and the first ray 



of the first dorsal fin toothed at the back. 

 Macrourus ruspestris. Bloch.pl. 177. 

 Coryphaena rupestris. C. dorso dipterygio^ pinnae dorsalis primes 



radio primo retro-dentato. Lin. Syst* Nat. Gmel. p. 195. 



Mull, prodr. zool. Dan. p. 43. 



X HE head of this remarkable fish is large and 

 thick; the upper jaw projecting above into the 

 form of an obtuse snout : the eyes are very large : 

 the mouth wide, with five rows of small, curved 

 teeth in the upper jaw, and two rows in the lower : 

 the tongue white, thick, short, and cartilaginous : 

 beneath the tip of the lower jaw hangs a beard or 

 cirrus : the body gradually tapers from the middle 

 part, and at length is continued into a very long, 

 slender, and pointed tail : the whole fish is covered 

 with moderately large, rounded scales, each of 



