212 ANGLESEY MORRIS. Class IV. 



GENUS XXI. MORRIS. 



Head small. 



Body extremely thin, compressed. 



Fins pectoral, ventral, caudal, none. 



1. Angle- Leptocephalus. Gronov.Zooph. Turtoris Brit. Fauna. 88. 



SEY ' No. 410. lab. 13. f. 3. Le Leptocephale Morrisien. 



L. Morrisii. Gm. Lin. 1150. De la Cepede Hist, des 



Shaw Gen. Zool. iv. 84. tah. Poissons, ii. 143. 

 10. 



JlHIS species was discovered in the sea near 

 Holyhead by the late Mr. William Morris, and, 

 in memory of our worthy friend, we have given 

 it his name. On receiving it from Mr. Morris, 

 we communicated it to that accurate Ichthyo- 

 logist, Doctor Laurence Theodore Gronovius, 

 of Leyden, who has described it in his Zoophy- 

 lacium, under the title of Leptocephalus, or 

 small head. 

 Descrip- The length was four inches ; the head very 

 small ; the body compressed sideways, extremely 

 thin, and almost transparent, about the tenth of 

 an inch thick, and in the deepest part about 

 one third of an inch ; towards the tail it grew 

 more slender, and ended in a point ; towards 

 the head it sloped down, the head lying far 



TION. 



