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CENTROLOPHITS, 
Thf, body moderately compressed, lengthened, covered with very 
small scales. Gape moderate. From the head, along the back, a 
ridge, on which stands the single dorsal fin. Eye lateral. Ventral 
fins thoracic 
POMPILUS. 
BLACKFISH. 
Blackfish, 
Coryphcuna pompilus, 
Centrolophiis pompihis, 
and 0. morio, 
Coryphcsna pompile, 
“ mono, 
*1 i( 
Holocentre noir, 
JoNSTON; Table 3, f. 5. 
Linn ®us. 
CUVIEB. 
Lacepede. Eisso 
Jenvns; Manual, p. 370. 
Yaerell,; Br. Pishes, vol. i, p. 179. 
Gunther; Oat. Br. Museum, vol ii. 
Lacepede. 
Thr Reverend George Jago was the resident minister of 
the Episcopal Chapel in East Looe, at the beginning of the 
eighteenth century, and, while residing there, he employed the 
favourable opportunities within his reach in making collections 
for a work on the natural history of the fishes of Cornwall, 
which, however, he did not live to accomplish He had made 
known some of the fruits of his labour to the well-known 
naturalist, Petiver, by whom they were communicated to Dr. 
Derham, who inserted them as an appendix to the posthumous 
“Synopsis” of the illustrious Ray. When Jago died, his MSS. 
and drawings were left with his friend, Mr. Dyer, of East 
Looe, in whose house he had lived; and by the last-named 
gentleman they were handed over to Dr Gorlase, who at that 
time was engaged in writing his “Natural History of the County 
of Cornwall.” The figure given by Borlase is small, but 
