GYMNETUUB, {Cuvier.) REGALECUS, {Cray') 
Kf Stc. ’to id ».™.d tag dl.™.; „o 
anal fin; the tail with scarcely the maik of a fin. 
BANKS’S GARFISH. 
Hawkins Oymnetrus, (referred to) 
Regalecus Hanhsiit 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 204. 
Richardson; Supp. to Yarrell’s 
Br. Fi.shea, p. 27. 
Gunther; Catalogue Br. Museum, 
vol. iii, p. 309. 
Annals and Mug. Mat. Hist., 2nd. 
Series, July, 1849. 
The cWterUtlc tabit, ot B.nk,', O.tob in it, native 
n t. and even the haunts themselves ai'e so little known, 
rtr“e and the amount of it, history recognised by natnrahste 
o be limited to a mention ot the place, where it ha. been 
found and the circumstances attending it, capture; and even 
found, an , particulars there appears in some of 
as regal (Is uncertainty in the accounts 
the instances no small uegiec 
that have been given concerning theim 
The first example on lecoia » 
been obtained at AVhithy. m Januar^^of the ye^ 
°H "’’“t Esq 'and Du'Embllton, i" “Annals and Mag.sine 
rNli’al His'tory” for the year 184<., ^TlSd 
IT,- he..” nf the former date; but the species couiu 
'AZe b7e“ recognised from the description there given. 
