PLATE LXIV. 
tang. Dr. Bloch was told by Sir William Hamilton, that a fish 
this species was once caught near Naples, that weighed fourteen 
pounds, and this bbing an uncommon size for the Gar-fish on that 
c oast was presented to the King as a rarity. 
The dorsal fin in our specimen contains seventeen rays ; pectoral 
-oil teen: ventral seven : anal nineteen : and caudal twenty-three. 
