FISHES IN TABLE-CASES, ETC. 13 



On the lar°;e table between Wall-cases 6 and 15, surrounded bv Great 



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a mahogany rail, are a Great Blue Shark, Car char odon rondeletii, q-u^u 

 from the Atlantic coast of North America, and, on the other side, 'Table 25. 

 a Mackerel Shark, Lamna spallanzanii, and. the jaws of a Mackerel 

 Shark, and those of a Great Blue Shark much larger than the one 

 shown on this table. On the floor within the railing are a number 

 of specimens, the final positions for which have not at the time of 

 writing been decided; they are a skeleton of the Southern Ribbon- 

 fish, Hegalecus argenteus, a very fine specimen, 12 feet long ; a 

 specimen of Euoxymetopon poeyi, a fish allied to the Hair- tails 

 "Wall-case 17) ; a skeleton of the deep-sea fish Alepidosaurus ferox , 

 with great teeth and a large dorsal fin supported by unbranched 

 fin-rays ; a form of Sea-perch, Epinephelus cemioides, not very 

 large considering to what a great size some of the Sea-perches or 

 Jew-fishes attain, but interesting as being a specimen caught off 

 the Cornish coast ; a Meagre, Sciama aqaila ; a Skate, Rata batis ;. 

 a Sturgeon, Acipenser sturio ; and a Quinnat Salmon, Oncho~ 

 rhynchus quinnat, which weighed 70 lbs. when caught. 



Standing between the two railed enclosures in the middle line 

 of the Gallery is a Floor-case (24) devoted to the Sword-fishes. 

 and Sail-fishes. A description of the contents of this case is given 

 on page 170. 



On one side of the Sword-fish case (24) is a small Table- 

 case (37) containing a skeleton of one of the African Siluroids or 

 Cat-fishes, Arias latiscutatus, and on the other side a Table (49) 

 with a large Halibut, Hippoglossus vulgaris, 6 feet 2 inches long, 

 caught in the North Sea in 1902, and a cast of a very fine 

 Lepidotus maximus, from the Lithographic Stone of Bavaria, an 

 extinct fish of the family Semionotidse (see Wall-case 7). 



In front of Wall-cases 6 and 7 stand two Table-cases (50 

 and 51) with a skeleton and two specimens of the great Arapaima 

 gigas of the Amazon and neighbouring rivers, a fish belonging to 

 the family Osteoglossidse (see Wall-case 7 and page 89). Opposite 

 these cases, in front of Wall-cases 14 and 15, are two Table-cases 

 (36 and 35) containing a large specimen of Platystoma gigas, from 

 the Upper Amazons, and a skeleton of an equally large Bagarius- 



