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three quarters. It contained twenty-four bars separated through the 

 middle. 



Upper jaw, palate, and tongue, rough, with grater-like teeth, that are 

 small and blunt. 



Colour of the back a dusky brown, or olive, interspersed with whit- 

 ish clouds. Belly and neck dusky white, with carnation and green 

 about the gill membrane, and greenish along the chin, cheeks, neck, 

 pectoral fins, belly, vent, and root of anal fin away to the tail. Skin 

 scaleless. Lateral line rather obscure, especially toward the tail. A 

 whitish longitudinal cloud, on each side, near the belly. 



Tail not convex ; though my specimen might have been, perhaps, 

 deficient in that part. Is evidently the species already known. 

 Rays, Br. 9. P. 19. V. 5. D. 34. A. 34. C. 21. 



2. Small oceanic sucker. (Echeneis remora.) Brown sucker, with 

 eighteen bars across the head, and a concave tail. 



The specimen I have before me is the same with that called the 

 Mediterranean remora. It has eighteen stripes across the shield, which 

 is separated by a longitudinal bar. The flattened head, the small eyes, 

 the prominent lower jaw, the uniform brown of the skin, the smooth- 

 ness, and the lunated tail, are so well described in the books, that there 

 is no need of enlarging this description. 



CORYPHCENA. BAILOR'S DOLPHIN. 



Generic character. 



Head sloping suddenly downwards. Gill membrane five rayed. 

 Dorsal fin the length of the back. 



Common Coryphcne. (Coryphazna hippuris.) Blue green coryphene, 

 with orange-coloured spots, sixty rays in the dorsal fin, and a forked tail. 



This fish is well described in the books of modern writers, so cor- 



