108 ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



Echeneis remora, Plate XXXIX, % 2. 



Exfl'S, Plutarch, Sympos. Kb. ii; Oppian, Halieut. i, p. 9. liOetp, Aristot. 

 Hist. 



Echeneiiy, Ovid, Hal. v, 99 ; Pliny, xxii, c. 1, ix, c. 25 ; yElian, i, c. 36, iii, c. 17 ; 

 Wotton, De DifEer. p. 149. Beviora, Rondel, xv, o. 18, p. 436 ; Petiver, Gazophyl. 

 t, xliv, f. li ; Jonston, de Piso. lib. i, tit. 1, c. ii, art. iv, p. 16, t. iv, f . 3 ; Ray, 

 p. 71. Zuiger, Nieukoff, Brass. Zee-en Lant-Reize, ii, p. 274, f. 67. Eemora 

 imperati, Willugbby, Appendix, p. 5, t. ix, f. 2. Sucking-fish, Edward's 

 Gleanings, No. 210. Mediterranean Bemora, Pennant, Brit. Zool. (Ed. 1812) iii, 

 p. .524. Echeneis, sp. Klein, MSS. iv, p. 51, No. 1 ; Gronov. Zoopb.. p. 75, No. 

 256, and Mus. Ich. i. No. 33 ; Duhamel, Pecbes, ii. Sect. 4, p. 56, pi. iv, f . 5. 



Echeneis remora, Linn. Syst. i, p. 446, and Amoen. Acad, i, p. 320, and Mus. Reg. 

 Ad. Frid. i, p. 75 ; Osbeck, Voy. China, p. 94 ; Schoepff, Schrift. Gesel. Nat, 

 Preunde Berlin, viii, 3, p. 145 ; Bloch, t. clxxii ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1187 ; Lacep. iii 

 pp. 146, 147, t. ix, f . 1 ; Bl. Schn. p. 240 ; Blumenb. Abbild, t. Ixxviii ; Bonna 

 terre, p. 67, pi. xxxlii, f. 128; Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 201, pi. xxxi ; Risso, Ich 

 Nice, p. 177, and Eur. Merid. iii, p. 269 ; Mull. Prod. Faun. Dan. No. 361 

 Mitch. Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. New York, i, p. 378 ; Turton, Brit. Fauna, p. 94 

 Richards. Faun. Bor. Amer. p. 265 ; Faber, Fische Islands, p. 115 ; Temm. and 

 Schlegel, Fauna Japon. Poiss. p. 271 ; De Kay, New York Fauna, Fishes, p. 309 

 Bonap. Peso. Bur. p. 66 ; Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. iii, p. 16 ; Bennett, Whaling 

 Voyage, p. 271 ; Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Fish. p. 142, and Man. Vert. p. 473 

 Thompson, Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 1846, p. 314, and Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv, p. 222 

 Yarrell, Brit. Fish. (Ed. 2) ii, p. 377, c. fig. (Ed. 3) i, p. 671; Wliite, Catal 

 Brit. Fishes, p. 56 ; Giinther, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1860, p. 390, Catal. ii 

 p, 378, and Fische Gode. Mus. Heft, v, p. 156 ; Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. So. Phil 

 1864, p. 60 ; Couch, Journ. Roy. Soc. Corn. 1867, p. 361 ; Kner, Novara Fische, 

 p. 146 ; Bleeker, Madagascar, p. 99 ; Day, Fishes of India, p. 258 ; Moreau, Poiss 

 France, ii, p. 535, c. fig. 



Echeneis squalipeta, Dald. Nat. Selskab. ii, p. 157; Bl. Schn. p. 240; Giinther, 

 Catal. ii, p. 377 {young). 



Echeneis naucrates, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii, p. 270. 



Echeneis jacoiea and pallida, Lowe, Pro. Zoo. Soc. 1839, p. 89, and Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. iii, pp. 16, 17. 



Echeneis remoroides, Bleeker, Batoe, ii, p. 70. 



Echeneis parva, Gronov. ed Gray, p. 92. 



.'' Echeneis horhoniensis, Guich. in Maillard Reunion, Appen. p. 19. 



Bemora, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, ii, p. 113, pi. Ixxxviii. 



Bemora tropica, Murray, Edinb. New. Phil. Journ. 1856, iv. p. 287. 



B. vii, D. 17-18/22-24. P. 20-24. V. 1/5. A. 22-25. C. 19. Coec. pyl. 6-8. 

 Vert. 12/15. 



Length of bead 4^ to 4i, including disk 3, of disk alone 3^-, of caudal fin 6, 

 height of body 7 to 9, of ventrals 7^ to 8^, breadth between pectoral fins 6 to 6^ 

 in the total length. Eye — placed in the middle of the length of the head, 3:^ to 

 3|- diameters from the end of the snout, and 5 apart. Its direction is downwards, 

 having its upper edge most projecting. Mouth rounded ; lower jaw the longer ; 

 the posterior extremity of the maxilla does not quite reach to beneath the front 

 edge of the eye. Teeth — present in a band in either jaw, that on the lower being 

 the wider; also present on the vomer, palatine bones, and tongue. Fins — the disk 

 or modified first dorsal fin is placed on the upper surface of the head and occiput, 

 is nearly half as wide as long, containing from 17 to 18 transverse laminEe, each 

 of which has a rough tooth-like posterior edge, -while along its centre runs a 

 narrow smooth elevation enabling the vacuum to be confined to one-half of the 

 disk. The most anterior laminae are directed slightly forward, the posterior more 

 backward, while the intervening ones have an intermediate direction. External to 

 this disk is a wide fleshy membrane which reaches posteriorly to beyond the 



