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LICHTA. 
Thb body compressed, deep, slender towards the tail, which is forked. 
A sinele dorsal and anal fin; opposite each other, and proceeding near 
L SI Free ^fnes before thT dorsal fin the first of them pointing 
forward. Free spines also before the anal fin. Ventral fins behind the 
root of tho pectorals. 
DERBIO. 
Olaucus, 
Glaucus primus Rondeletii. 
Scomber glaucus, 
Lichia glaucus, 
Caranx glauque, 
Oentronote glaicos, 
Centronotus binotatus. 
JonsTOsr; Table 1, fill. 
Willoughby; p. 297, Table S. 15, f. 1. He 
describes what Jonston represents— the 
dorsal spines united by a membrane, which 
appears not to be the usual condition. In 
Cuvier's figure there is a slip of membrane 
to each spine. 
Lihnjeus. 
OOVIEK. 
Lacbpedb. 
Bisso. Yarrell; 2nd. Supplement, p. 23. 
Bafinesque. 
Guktheb; Cat. Br. Museum, vol. ii, p. 477. 
It may be supposed that this fish obtained its ancient name 
of Glaucus from its light or sea-blue colour, but it became also 
the proper designation of the species, in the same manner as we 
apply the name of blackbird to a well-known bird as peculiarly 
its own, although there are others to which it may, a des- 
cription, be equally adapted. This fish was also called by an 
analogous designation in Greek, but in the latter instance there 
is much uncertainty in its application. Thus, in one place 
Oppian speaks of a species which he calls Glaucus, (Halieutics 
B i line ITO ) which he associates with the Gilthead and 
the ’other sorts of Sea Breams, as frequenting stony or sandy 
ground, and this name the translator renders by the term 
