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and the three specimens of a Lophotes especially, were pre- 
served. It is not at all improbable that these three specimens 
are British, and to these observations of Dr. Gunther I will 
venture to add, that it is probable these same examples were 
examined by myself at hir. YarreU’s house, at which time I 
made a note of its being that gentleman’s opinion that they 
formed varieties or monstrosities of the Megrim or Scaldfish; 
but that they appeared to me to differ considerably from other 
examples of the last-named — especially in the lower jaw, which 
was more protruded; in the separate lengthened tendrils in 
front of the dorsal fin, and especially in the singular shape cf 
the lateral line; from which particulars I judged them to be 
a species new to Britain, but from whence they were procured 
did not appear. There is reason to believe that at least a large 
proportion of the preserved skins obtained by Mr. Yarrell 
from Plymouth were a gift from Lieutenant Spence, E.N., of 
that place ; but I am informed by Dr. Gunther that these skins 
of the Lophotes in the collection of the British Museum are 
prepared in a different manner from such as were presented 
by Lieutenant Spence; and yet that this gentleman had met 
with the species at Plymouth appears from the fact that at his 
house I had an opportunity of examining a skin of what I 
felt no doubt was the same species with that of Mr. Yarrell, 
but of which T was only able to take a sketch of the front, 
with the form of the lateral line— a copy of which, a little 
diminished, is for the sake of illustration here given. The 
