456 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
SARDA MEDITERRANEA. The Pelamid (Couch). Fig. IV. 
The specimen examined had eleven long, horny gill-rakers 
on the left side of the gullet, and twelve on the right side on 
the first branchial arch, These gill-rakers had villiform teeth 

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on their inner faces. On the inner side of this arch are fourteen 
small processes like gill-rakers, also set with teeth. Along the 
top of the second, third, and fourth arches villiform teeth run 
all along, but arranged on tubercles which touch each other; on 
the inner side of these arches there are similar tubercles with 
villiform teeth, but they are spaced more distinctly apart. The 
