20 PERCID.E. 



brown with darker brown spots, gill-covers striped with yel- 

 low ; membrane of the first dorsal fin black to the fourth 

 spine, the remainder and the second dorsal fin pale brown, 

 almost white ; other fins light brown. The spawning season 

 is in June. 



The following lines, referring to various qualities in the 

 Weever, may be quoted by 'way of conclusion : 



" The Weever, which although his prickles venom be, 

 By fishers cut away, which buyers seldom see ; 

 Yet for the fish he bears, 'tis not accounted bad." 



DRAYTON, POLY-OLBION, Song xxv. 



The vignette below represents the barnacle, the species 

 referred to in the history of Couch's Polyprion, last described. 



