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GENERAL REMARKS. 



The name iridecem lineaius (thirteen lined) is not particularly eupho- 

 nious, nor very characteristic, yet as it has ifi conformity with long 

 established usages existing among naturalists, been admitted into our 

 standard works, we have concluded to adopt it. 



The figm-es given by Sabine and F. Cuvier of this species, are defec- 

 tive, each having been taken from a specimen in which the tail had 

 been mutilated. That given by Richardson, Fauna boreali Americana, 

 drawn by Landseer, is more characteristic. 



