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Dr. Shaw drew his description of this species from a fine 
specimen preserved in the British Museum, and Mr. Mon- 
tagu shortly afterwards figured and described it in the 
Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, from one taken on the 
southern coast of Devon, under the name of Ziphotheca 
tetradens, from four of the upper-jaw teeth, which are 
larger than the others. 
The length of Mr. Montagu’s specimen was five feet six 
inches; of that in the British Museum, (from whence the 
annexed figure was taken) four feet seven inches. In tne 
lower jaw towards the extremity, are two teeth rather larger 
than the others, and in the upper jaw on each side, are 
two teeth of a much superior size, placed out of the range 
of the other teeth, the hinder of which is smallest. 
Risso, in his ** Ichthyologie de Nice*,’’ has described a 
species of Lepidopus under the title Peronii, which he 
supposes may possibly be the same species with that 
described above; but on examining his figure, I am dis- 
posed to consider it as distinct ; the pectoral fin is rounded, 
the middle radii being longest; the lateral line is repre- 
sented as differing in its extremities, and the anal fin is 
considerably longer in proportion. 
* Page 148, Pl. 5, Fig. 18. 
