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the belly flesh-coloured. When the colours faded after death, 

 I observed many spots on the sides, which were not visible 

 before. It adheres with some degree of fotce. When the tide 

 retires, this fish sometimes takes refuge under a stone. 



*' Another species, which I do not recollect to have seeh 

 noticed^ is not uncommon about low-water mark, where it hides 

 tinder stones. The head is broad and flat, sloping from bfehind 

 the eyes to the mouth. The body tapers from the pectoral fins 

 to the tail ; it is smooth, a dusky-yellow on the back and sides, 

 • the belly white ; it has a row of white points along the lateral 

 line, and also about the head and mouth, which secrete mucus. 

 Thirteen tubercles form the sucking apparatus; but I could 

 never get this fish to adhere to any substance. The tail is' 

 round; the dorsal and anal fins long, the former beginning just 

 above the pectoral fins, the latter at the abdominal tubercles, 

 and both run to the tail ; which part, with the dorsal and anal 

 fins, is crossed by dark bars. When this fish rests, it has a sin» 

 gular custom of throwing its tail forwards towards the head. 

 It rarely exceeds an inch in length."* 



Tetraodon truncatuSy oblong sunfish ; Centriscus Scolopair, 

 trumpetfish : — " A fish of this species was thrown on shore in 

 St. Austel Bay, and came into the possession of WiUiam Rash- 

 leigh, Esq. of Menabilly, a gentleman distinguished for his love 

 of natural history, w^ho possesses a fine drawing of it. It was 

 five inches long, and from the back to the belly one inch and 

 two-eighths ; in thickness three-eighths of an inch ; it weighed 

 three drams. The proboscis, which to the eye measured an inch 



, and five-eighths, was formed of a bony substance, which was 

 continued along the back, where it terminated in a sharp point, 

 and spreading in the middle, where it makes an obtuse angle 

 just above a small fin behind the gills." 



Chonuropterygious Fishes: Rata Torpedo, torpedo or 

 cramp ray : — Mr. C.'s suggestion respecting the use of the electri- 

 cal faculty of this animal has already been given in the Annals, 

 at p. 156 of the present volume. 



SqiialHS Squatina, Monkfish : — "Common; keeps near the 

 bottom, and is most commonly taken in nets. The propriety of 



' ranking this fish with the Sqiiali seems to me to be doubtful : 

 the terminal mouth and depressed body afford sufficient distinc- 

 tions for a nev/ genus, which might be denominated Sqnalina, 

 and in which the following species might find a place. 



" Lewis. — This fish, so named by fishermen, by whom it is 

 not unfrequently taken with a line, bears some resemblance to 

 the Monk, but is somewhat smaller ; and as I have not been 

 able to assign it a Linnsean name, I subjoin a description : — The 

 head is large, flat, the jaws of equal length, forming a wide 

 mouth; the upper jaw falls in somewhat at tlie middle, so that 



• " Tills is probably a variety of C. liparis.^* 



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