2 Ribband Fishes of the Genus Gymnetrus. 



This last circumstance must be a mistake, as we shall see ; but 

 in itself his figure is a fair representation of the actual appear- 

 ance of the specimen as it then existed, with, perhaps, the 

 exception that the jaws are unnaturally drawn out ; and at the 



bottom of the drawing is the following inscription : — " This is 

 a drawing of a fish that came on shore at Newlyn on Saturday 

 the 23rd of February, 1788. Its length without the tail (which 



it wanted) was 8| feet, its extreme breadth 10i inches, and its 

 thickness but 2f inches.— M. Wright fed." The artist has 

 supplied the deficiency of a tail by something which bears a 

 resemblance to the same part in the common sea-bream — but 



