ROOM IV.] 
natural history. (Animals.) 
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Wall Cases 14—19. Soft-rayed Fish. 
Case 14, 15. Carp, and other fresh water fish of different countries. 
Case 15. The pikes: the bony pikes, from America; the garpike, 
which has green bones; and different kinds of flying fish. 
Case 16. Siluroid fish: the callichthes, which are covered with rows 
of imbricate plates like scale armour; and the loricaria, which has the 
body entirely covered with a hard coat formed of angular scales; the 
salmon, trouts, &c. 
Cases 17, 18. Different kinds of salmon and herrings. 
Case 19. Various kinds of Bony Pike. 
Case 20. Cod, ling, whiting. 
Case 21. Flat fish: turbot, flounders; their bodies are compressed, 
and they lie on the white side at the bottom of the sea. 
Case 22. The lump fish, and different kinds of eels. 
Wall Cases. Anomalous Fish, 
Cases 23, 24. Sea horses, so called because they bear a grotesque 
resemblance to a horse in miniature when dry. Spiny globe fish* 
which have a beak like a parrot; they have the faculty of dilating 
their stomach with air, hence their name. 
Cases 25, 26. The balistes or file fish, which have small teeth, and 
are covered with a hard skin; leather jackets, with a more flexible, less 
armed skin. 
Case 26. The coffin fishes, covered with a hard horny skin formed of 
six or eight-sided plates, forming an even coat; the sturgeons, from 
Europe and America. 
On the Tops of the Cases, 
different kinds of fish which are too large to be arranged in the 
proper places in the Cases. 
Large shad with a long dorsal ray, from Mexico ; a flying sword¬ 
fish, from the Indian Ocean, wdth two other pikes; and, belonging to 
the same kind of fish, one which has been forced through the oak 
timber of a ship. These fish swim so rapidly, that if they come 
against a ship they pierce it. 
The Tables 1—12. Insects. 
Tables 1—8. The Coleopterous Insects or Beetles; the leaf-beetle 
or Mormolyce, from Java; the burying beetle ( Necrophorus ) ; the stag- 
beetle, with its long jaws like the horns of deer; the scarabaeus, which 
incloses its eggs in balls of dung, and w r as esteemed sacred bv the 
Egyptians; the rhinoceros, elephant, and bubaline beetles, which have 
the front of the head or the front of the thorax produced into variously 
shaped horns or humps. 
Table 2. The buprestidse, with their metallic colours, the hard wings 
of which are often used to ornament dresses in the place of spangles ; 
the lantern spring-jack (Elater noctilucus), with a spot on each side of 
