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ADDENDA. 



While this work has been passing through the press the following additions 

 have been made to the British Fish Fauna. 



Volume I, page 120. 



SCHEDOPHILUS MEDUSOPHAGUS, Vol. I, p. 117. 



Centrolophus medusophagus, Cocco, in Giorn. Innora. Mess. Ann. iii, no. 7, 

 p. 57. 



SchedopMlus medusophagus, Cocco, 1. c. ; Bonap. Faun. Ital. Pesc. c. fig. ; 

 Giinther, Catal. ii, p. 412, Fisch. d. Siidsee, p. 149 and Trans. Zool. Society, xi, 

 p. 223, pl.xlvii ; Liitken, Vid. Selsk. Skr. 1880, p. 525 ; Canestrini, Fauna d'ltalia, 

 Pesc. p. 108 ; Giglioli, Catal. Pesc. d'ltal. p. 26 ; Moreau, Poiss. de la France, ii, 

 p. 502, f. 139. 



B. vi-vii, D. 45-50, P. 18, V. 1/5, A. 27-29, C. 21. 



Length of head about 1/6, of caudal fin 6-§, height of body 2f in the total 

 length. Eyes — about 1/4 of the length of the head, If diameters from the end of 

 the snout, and the same distance apart. Posterior and lower margins of preopercle 

 spinate, also the lower edge of the interopercle, and the subopercle slightly so. 

 Body of an elongate ovoid shape, strongly compressed. Cleft of mouth of mode- 

 rate depth, the hind edge of the maxilla reaching to below the middle of the orbit. 

 Teeth — minute, in a single row in the jaws, none on the palate. Gill-openings 

 wide. Fins — dorsal low, it commences above the root of the pectoral and is 

 continued to the caudal peduncle, which latter is about as long as deep. Ventrals 

 small. Anal commences slightly behind the middle of the total length. Caudal 

 rounded. Scales — small, cycloid. Lateral-line — at first slightly arched, becoming 

 straight opposite the hind edge of the pectoral fin. Colours — greenish-olive 

 marbled with darker, also with spots and irregular longitudinal bands. The 

 vertical fins spotted with dark. 



Habitat. — Mediterranean, in the open Atlantic, and in the South Sea. Moreau 

 obtained his example from Marseilles, where it was taken in July, 1877. 



The above example, which is 9-| inches in length, was captured on the south 

 coast of Ireland, and exhibited at the Zoological Society in June, 1881, and it 

 had been procured in August, 1873, by Mr. Douglas Ogilby from a salmon net at 

 Portrush, co. Antrim. 



Volume II, page 51. 

 Paralepis coregonoides. 



Coregonus maramula, Risso, Ich. Nice, p. 328. 



Paralepis coregonoides, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii, p. 472, pi. vii, f. 15 ; Cuv. and 

 Val. vii, p. 357, pi. lxvii ; Bonap. Fauna Italia, Pesc. c. fig. ; Giinther, Catal. v, 

 p. 418 ; Canestrini, Fauna Italia, Pesc. p. 127 ; Giglioli, Catal. Pesc. Ital. p. 41 ; 

 Moreau, Poiss. de la France, iii, p. 519, fig. 205 ; Day, Zoologist, 1883, pp. 381 

 and 506. 



B. vii, D. 10/2-3 (H), P. 13, V. 9, A. 23-25. 



The proportions of this fish are subject to great variations. Body slender and 

 moderately compressed, the abdominal edge being sharp. The following is taken 

 from Mr. Couch's description of the specimen soon after it was captured. Eye — 

 large, and situated one inch from the end of the snout. The lower jaw projecting a 

 little beyond the upper : cleft of mouth very deep. Teeth — a single row along either 

 jau-, also present on the palate. Fins — first dorsal commences rather nearer the end 

 of the caudal fin than the end of the snout, its posterior border incurved as are those 



