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PEEISTIDIOI^. 
With the general form of the Gurnards the snout is much more 
lengthened; the body completely covered with plates, which are 
arranged in ridges lengthwise. The separate processes are only two 
one on each side. j > 
ARMED GURNARD. 
MAILED GURNARD. MALARMAT. 
Lyra altera Rondeletii, 
Trigla cataphracta, 
Peristedion malarmat, 
ii ii 
Peristellus cataphractum, 
Willoughby; p. 283, Tab. S. 3. 
Linnjeos. 
L.LCEPEDE. RiSSO. CuVXER. 
Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History, 
New Series, vol. i, p. 17. 
Yabrell; British Pishes, vol. i, p. 67. 
Gunther; Cat. Br. Museum, vol. ii, p. 217. 
It appears that the Armed Gurnard is not rare in the 
Mediterranean, where, as we are informed hy Eisso, its haunts 
are chiefly in deep water, but that it comes within reach to 
be caught at the ecpuinoxes. It seems, however, to be a local 
species, for Willoughby did not find it at Venice during a 
residence of four mouths, nor at Genoa beyond a single example; 
but in the markets of Eome it was of frequent occurrence’ 
It is a rare visitant to Britain, and hitherto has been taken 
only on the coast of Cornwall. It was first announced as 
British by Dr. Edward Moore, of Plymouth, from an example 
taken with a trawl in the neighbourhood of the Eddystone; 
and since then I have been informed by Mr. Peach of two’ 
that were caught by a boat off Gorran, where that gentleman 
at that time resided. A fourth has come to my hands from 
