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LARGER LAUNCE. 
WIDE-MOTITHED LAUNCE. 
Tnhianus. 
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Ammodytcs tohianus. 
appaf, 
lanceolatws, 
Willoughby; well described, but with 
reference to a figure of another fish. 
Jago; in Ray’s Synopsis, f. 12. 
LISN.EUS. Ogvier. 
Fleming; British Animals, p. 201. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 483. 
Yahrell; British Fishes, vol. ii, p. 424. 
Risso. Bloch; pi. 75. Donovan; pi. 33. 
Gun THEE; Catalogue Briti.sh Museum, 
vol. iv, p. 384. 
This is a fish of great activity, as might be judged from its 
slender form, and well-constructed shape; and it is also 
voracious, so that it pursues and devours some which might 
be supposed little likely to become its prey. Its gape also is 
capacious, by the aid of which it has been able to swallow the 
hook, baited with a lask or slice cut from the shining side of 
a Mackarel, and which was intended to have proved an attraction 
to a much larger prize. It has happened not unfrequently 
that the Lesser Launce, which formerly was believed to be in 
the half grown condition of its own race, has been found in its 
stomach. 
The favourite resort of this species is in much deeper water 
than is frequented by the Lesser Launce, and thus it has been 
known to have been devoured by the larger fishes which have 
been caught at ten leagues from land, at the entrance of the 
British Channel, in a depth of forty-five fathoms; and this, too, 
in the middle of the summer, although that is the season when 
it is common for it to draw near the land; in doing which it 
