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former figure; and he has furnished a new engraving of the British 
Hake, which leaves no doubt of its identity with the Madeiran fish, 
according to my first determination in the ‘ Synopsis of the Fishes of 
Madeira.’ No variation in the form of the fins, it may be added, has 
yet been observed in the Madeiran Hake. 
Mora Mediterranea, Risso, Hist. iii. 224. 
Fishing at a depth of three or four hundred fathoms off Magda- 
lena, five leagues to the west of Funchal, I was fortunate enough 
last summer (1841) to obtain many examples of both sexes of this 
very rare, and, even in Madeira, almost unknown fish, which Cuvier 
has wholly omitted in the ‘ Régne Animal.’ It forms a very distinct 
genus of Gadide; in shape and colours resembling Phycis Mediter- 
raneus, but in the large thick subcubic head, abrupt short muzzle 
and large scales, recalling to mind a pale-coloured Pomatomus tele- 
scopus. At Magdalena this last-named fish is called “‘ Pimentelle,” 
whilst its common Funchal name, ‘“ Ribaldo,” is assigned to Mora 
Mediterranea. 
Gen. GapELLA, nob. 
Char. Gen.—Corpus subellipticum, postice valde attenuatum com- 
pressum: capite nuchaque superne latis planis: rostro obtuso, 
rictu amplo largo, ore lato transverso, maxillis equalibus dentibus 
subscobinatis, quibusdam magnis uncinatis distantibus intersper- 
sis, vomere palatinis linguaque levibus inermibus: barbula nulia. 
Pinna dorsalis analisque unica conformis continua zqualis a nucha 
vel ano usque ad pinnz caudalis basin protensa, antice angustis- 
sima, postice latior: dorsali prima plane nulla. Pinne pectorales 
lanceolato-acuminatz, tenues nec carnose: ventrales jugulares 
parve pluri-radiate, radiis primis duobus in filamenta productis. 
Pinna caudalis elongato-lanceolata. 
Obs. Piscis pusillus, cinereo-fuscus, Motelliformis, oculis magnis, 
membrana branchiostega septem-radiata. 
GADELLA GRACILIS. 
D. fere 60; A. fere 60; P. 24; V.7; C. XXV. fere; M.B. 7. 
This new type approaches Motella, Raniceps, and Brosmius ; dif- 
fering from the two former in the entire absence of a nuchal groove, 
or of any rudiment of a first dorsal fin; and from them all in the 
absence of barbule, and in the shape and delicate (not fleshy) nature 
of the pectoral fins. A single example only has occurred, measuring 
four inches and one-eighth in length. 
Fam. Macrovurips#, nob. 
Macrovurus serratus. WM. pallide cinereo-fuscus, scaber, squamis 
pectinato-striatis, inermibus, ecarinatis : capite rostroque brevibus, 
simplicibus (nec celatis nec carinatis) ; oculis rotundatis ; dentibus 
scobinatis : pinne dorsalis prime alte radio primo valido, antice 
spinoso-serrato ; ventralium in filamentum producto. 
1™D.1+4+ 9; 24D, 100 fere; A. 80-90; V.1+ 7v.8; P.19 
M. B. 7. 
