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not discover till long after, that the figure intended for my B. splen- 

 dens had been inadvertently taken by Miss Young from an individual 

 of B. decadactylus, Cuv., of which it offers the more obvious pecu- 

 liarities. The true B. splendens, therefore, yet remains unfigured, 

 and till an opportunity presents of supplying this deficiency in the 

 " Fishes of Madeira," I subjoin its true specific characters, contrasted 

 with those of B. decadactylus. 



B. SPLENDENS. B. covporc oblongo, altitudine longitudinem capitis 

 hand aquante : dorso recto : bast pintKB dorsalis brevi, pinnis pec- 

 toralibus breviore : oculis magnis ; opercuU lati carina prominente : 

 osse humerali dilatato, margine posteriore arcuato, obliquo. 



D. 4+ 13 — 15; V. 1 + 10 — 13 (1 + II fere); &c. 



B. splendens, nob. Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1833. 1. 142. Cam. Phil. 

 Trans. VI. 1. 197; excl. icon. — Syn. Mad. Fishes in Trans. Zool. 

 Soc.Vol.ii. p. 174. 



Trachichthys pretiosus, nob. 



Hoplostethus mediterraneus, Cuv. and Val. IV. 49 C. t, 97. bis. 

 Rariss. 



This fish is unquestionably congeneric, if it is not even still more 

 closely allied with Trachichthys australis of Shaw. Hence the above 

 adoption of the older generic appellation, affording opportunity for 

 the substitution of a less restrictive specific title ; better suited to a 

 fish : proved by the occurrence of two individuals in these Atlantic 

 seas not to be peculiarly Mediterranean. 



To the Sub-Percidous family Berycida belongs also Polymixia ; 

 nob. Cam. Phil. Trans. IV. 1. 198. t. IV.— Syn. Mad. Fish. pp. 178, 

 179. 



Fam. TaiGLiD^. 



Trigla lineata, L. Cuv. and Val. Hist. IV. 34. ; Yarrell, Brit. 

 Fish. 1. 46. Rariss. 



A single individual only has occurred. 



Fam. Sparid^. 



Pagellus rostratus, nob. — Syn. Mad. Fish. 177. 



Reference to the excellently characteristic figures of Rondelet and 

 Salviani has satisfied me that this is merely Pagellus erythrinus, Cuv. 

 and Val. 



Fam. Chcetodontid^. 



Pimelepterus Boscii, Lac. — " Cheiroco" or " Xarroco." — Cuv. and 

 Val. VII. 258 t. 187. Rariss. 



Fam. ScoMBRiD^. 



Thynnus Albacora. — "Atum Albacora." — T. corpore elongato,postice 



attenuato : pinna anali secundaque dorsali antice longe falcato- 



productis : pectoralibus ad medium secundce dorsalis attingen- 



tibus : ore oculisque parvis. 



Tunny, Penn. Brit. Zool. Ed. 1. iii. 266. No. 133. t. 52. excl. syn. 



An L'Auxide de Sloane, Scomber Sloanei, Cuv. and Val. Hist. VIII. 



