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A IIij}j)ocamjnis was taken alive in Belfast Bay, in July, 1837, by my 

 relative, Richard Langtry, Esq., and although ordered to be preserved for 

 me it was unfortunately lost. 



In 1838, Dr. R. Ball informed me that about four years previous to that 

 time a specimen was found dead on the beach near Youghal. 



Dr. G. J. AUman informed me, in 1839, that two small specimens of 

 Hijjpocamjn, each about an inch long, were taken by John Armstrong, 

 Esq., from the stomach of a codling caught above Carlisle Bridge, Dub- 

 lin, in Sept. or Oct., a year or two previously. 



PLECTOGNATHI. 



ORDER IV.— GYMNODONTES. 



Pennant's Globe-fish (Yarrell), or Stellated Globe-fish, 

 Tetrodon stellatus, Don., Tetrodon Pennantii, Yarr., 



Is only known to me from the following brief note which occurs in Mr. 

 Templeton's Catalogue : — 



" Tetrodon (Linn.), stellafus (Don.).^ — The only specimen I have known to be 

 found on the shores of Ireland was seen on the Tramore strand, County Water- 

 ford, by Dr. Gabriel Stokes." 



In Great Britain this fish has only been taken on the coast of Cornwall, 

 where three specimens have at different periods occurred.* 



The Short Sun-fish, Orthagoriscus Mola, Schn., 

 Has been taken on each side of the coast. 



In the Ordnance Survey Memoir (Notices, p. 14) it is stated that a 

 " specimen was procured on the Magilligan coast in the winter of 

 1836-7." 



A fish described to me as taken in the autumn of 1841 at Bushfoot, 

 near the Giant's Causeway, must have been an Orthagoriscus. 



An example of this fish, weighing about 3 cwt., which is preserved in 

 Queen's College, Belfast, was taken on 15th Sept., 1851, off the Gobbins 

 (County Antrim), by the crew of the revenue cruiser Wellington, whose 

 attention was attracted by one of its fins projecting out of the water. It 

 struggled desperately when attacked. This specimen was advertised for 

 exhibition at Belfast as an " Odd Jish." Another individual had been 

 captured on the Antrim coast a few days previously, and was exhibited 

 in Ballymena. 



Dr. Jacob described a fish of this species in the Dublin Phil. Journal 

 of November, 1826, which was taken in the previous month of August 

 between the South-West coast of England and Dublin Bay. Mr. Yarrell 

 remarks, that Dr. Jacob's is the best account of this fish that he is ac- 

 quainted with.f — Yarr. Brit. Fishes, vol. ii. 



* Two specimens at least have been taken since Mr. Thompson's death, one 

 on the coast of Wexford, and one on the coast of Watcrford. — R. Ball. 



t In the figure given by Dr. Jacob the pectoral fin is pointed like that of O. 

 oblongus ; it was not so ui the specimen which I saw, but was a mistake of the 

 artist. — R. Ball. 



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