TAKEN OFF THE COAST OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 301 
1796, and taken to York market on the 21st. The description 
is as follows :—“La queue lui manquait aussi. Sa longueur 
était de treize pieds, son épaisseur de trois pouces, la longueur 
de sa téte de sept. Ses flancs étaient garnis de petites protu- 
bérances argentées disposées en séries longitudinales. La dor- 
sale, qui s’étendait depuis la téte jusqu’d l’autre extremité, était 
rouge, et avait deux cent quatre vingt dix et treize rayons (les 
treize rayons sont sans doute ceux de la nuque) ; la pectorale en 
avait douze; la ventrale un seul. I] n’y avait point d’anale ; 
on ne voyait point de dents ; l’intérieure de la bouche était noir ; 
la distance de anus a la bouche était de quatre pieds. Toutes 
circonstances qui, comme on voit, se rapprochent beaucoup de ce 
que nous avons observé dans nos Gymnétres de la Méditerranée.”* 
This description, though not conclusive, is sufficient to war- 
rant us in adopting the name given by the French naturalists, 
and thus to avoid running the risk of adding uselessly to the list 
of synonymes. 
Another species is described in the same work, vol. x. p. 298, 
under the name Gymnetrus Gladius, which very much resembles 
our specimen ; besides, however, some minor differences, the up- 
per border of the operculum differs materially—in the former it 
is convex, and presents three angular points ; in the latter it is 
smooth and concave.t 
There are two Norwegian species which appear generally to 
precede or accompany the shoals of herrings, and hence are 
called “King of the Herrings.” Of these, the Regalecus Glesne 
of Ascanius (G'. Ascanii of Shaw) seems to be the most nearly 
allied to our fish, but it is distinguished from it by the following 
marks :—It is 10ft. long and 6in. deep ; its length is, therefore, 
to its depth as 20 tol. From the measurements given in the 
former part of this paper, it will be seen that our fish is thirteen 
* It has not been in our power to refer to the work here mentioned ; but to 
the kindness of Mr. Adam White, of the British Museum, who called our 
attention to the above record, we are indebted for this extract, and also for 
another relative to G. Gladius. 
+ The G. Telum of the same authors is also different from our fish, this 
having 268, that 398 rays in the dorsal fin. 
