EYED PTERACLIS. Pteraclis ocell&tus. 



is triumphantly hauled on board by means of the rope affixed to the butt-end of 

 the shaft. 



Such a chase as has just been described, seems to be of comparatively rare occurrence, 

 and any one who has witnessed it may consider himself peculiarly fortunate. 



Words can hardly express the extreme beauty of the Coryphenes, as they play easily 

 around the ship, their sides glittering in the sunbeams as if made of burnished gold and 

 silver, and every change of attitude producing some new combination of colour. They 

 have a curious habit of attaching themselves for a time to a passing ship, and are able, 

 from their exceeding swiftness, to gambol around the vessel as if she were at anchor, no 

 matter how swift her progress may be. Steam, however, is fatal to such observations, as 

 the screw or paddles are so noisy that few fish venture within their sweep, and the water 

 is so churned into whirling circles of froth and foam that even the glistening body of the 

 Coryphene would be invisible below the disturbed surface. 



THE very remarkable fish which is shown in the accompanying illustration, is allied 

 rather closely to the preceding species, in spite of the great difference in form, and by 

 some writers was placed in the same genus as that fish. 



