1865.] MR. W. H. FLOWER ON PHYSALUS ANTIQUORUM. 699 
Considering this Charr to be one of the best-marked species of 
this genus, we propose for it the name of 
SALMO KILLINENSIS. (Pl. XL.) 
D.14-15, A.13. P.13. V.9. IL. lat. 180. Vert. 62. 
Cee. pyl. 44-52. 
Head and body thick, but slightly compressed ; the greatest depth 
of the body equals the length of the head, and is two-ninths of the 
total length (to the extremity of the central caudal rays) ; the length 
of the head is a little more than one-half of the distance between the 
snout and the vertical from the origin of the dorsal fin. The lower 
jaw is rather shorter than the upper; and the maxillary extends 
scarcely beyond the hind margin of the orbit in adult males. Teeth 
very small. Snout obtuse; eye of moderate size, much shorter than 
the snout, and about half the width of the interorbital space. Sub- 
operculum very short and high. Fins excessively developed: pec- 
toral not much shorter than the head: dorsal long and high, the 
longest ray being nearly as long as the head (without snout), or 
shorter than the pectoral fin; the length of the last ray is two-thirds 
of the length of the base. The ventral fin extends nearly to the 
vent ; caudal very broad, slightly emarginate. Head, upper parts, 
and fins brownish black ; lower parts with an orange-coloured tinge 
in the male ; sides with very small, light, inconspicuons spots. An- 
terior margins of the lower fins white or light orange-coloured. 
The specimens are from 10 to 15 inches long. 
1]. OssERVATIONS UPON A Fin-WuaLe (PuHyYSALUS ANTIQUO- 
RUM, GRAY) RECENTLY STRANDED IN Pevensey Bay. By 
Wixiiam Henry Friower, F.R.S., erc., CoNSERVATOR OF 
THE Museum oF THE Roya CoLueGE or SuRGEONS. 
On the evening of Monday, November 13th, 1865, during a strong 
south-easterly gale, the body of a large Whale was thrown upon the 
beach in Pevensey Bay, Sussex, about 10 miles to the west of Hast- 
ings. It was claimed by the Hon. Board of Admiralty, and sold by 
public auction on the 15th, for the sum of £38, to a company of 
fishermen residing at Hastings and Eastbourne. I visited the spot, 
for the purpose of examining the animal, on the 16th, and also on 
the 20th and 21st, when the body was cut up by its owners for the 
sake of the oil which might be obtained from it, and with a view of 
preserving the skeleton. The difficulties attending upon the investi- 
gation of the external form and internal structure of one of these 
colossal creatures in the circumstances under which this one presented 
itself have been graphically described by Eschricht*, and must be 
my excuse for the imperfection of the following notes. 
When thrown ashore, the carcase was already in an advanced 
* Untersuchungen tber die nerdischen Wallthiere, p. 3. 
