510 GOBTESOCID^. 



spine hidden in the skin, are connected with the pectoral by a broad 

 membrane ; 'the disk between them is much broader than long. The 

 coracoids extend upwards beyond the middle of the base of the 

 pectoral, and the disk between them is subcircular. The dorsal and 

 anal fins are opposite each other, terminating at some distance from 

 the caudal ; the former commences behind the vertical from the vent, 

 and the latter a little more backwards. The caudal is of moderate 

 length and rounded. 



Carmine-red, with large yellowish spots on the body and fins ; 

 waving purplish and yellowish streaks cross the occiput. 



Length of the specimen described 30 lines. 



Forster's description of Cyclopteii'us littoreus agrees very well with 

 the specimens described, except the dorsal fin, which, he says, is 

 four-rayed. This, however, is doubtless an error in writing. 



I refer, for the present, a single specimen, thirteen lines long, from 

 the Fcejee Islands, to this species, as it would be hazardous to esta- 

 blish a second species on characters taken from an apparently imma- 

 ture individual. It is uniform deep purple. 



a. Island of Oualan. Voyage of the ' Herald.' 



8. LEPADOGASTER*. 



Lepadogaster, Oouan, Hist. Pise. p. 177 ; Cuv. R^yne Atiim, ; Mull. Sf 

 Trosch. Hor. Ichthyol. iii. p. 20. 



Anterior part of the body broad and depressed. Snout much 

 depressed, more or less prominent. Posterior portion of the adhesive 

 disk suspended at the coracoid bones, and with the anterior margin 

 free. Dorsal and anal fins with the rays well developed. Jaws 

 with a patch of small teeth in front, and with one series on the sides ; 

 incisors none. GUIs throe ?.nd a half; pseudobranchise rudimentary ; 

 branchiostegals five ; gill-membranes attached to the isthmus. 



Mediterranean, northwards to the coasts of Scandinavia. 



1. Lepadogaster gonanii. 



Lepadogaster gouanii, Bris. de Barnev. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 280. 

 Small Suck-fish, Borlasc, Cornw. p. 269. pi. 25. figs. 28, 29. 

 Le Barbier ou Porte-Ecuello, Gouan, Hist. Pise. tab. 1. figs. 6, 7. 

 Jura-Sucker, Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. p. 120. pi. 22 ; edit. 1812, iii. p. 181. 



pi. 25 ; Couch, Linn. IVans. xiv. p. 87. 

 Lepadogaster rostratus, Bl. Schn. p. 1. 

 gouanii, Laeep. i. pi. 23. figs. 8, 4, ii. p. 7.3 ; CSiv. Pi'fpie Anim. ; 



Risso, lehth. Nice, p. 72, and E^tr. Merid. iii. p. 271 ; Costa, Faun. 



Napol. Pesc. p. 2. tab. 23. figs. 1-3 ; Cuv. Rctjne Anim. III. Poiss. 



pi. 108. fig. 2. 

 Cyclopterus spatula, Lacep. ii. p. 68. 



* 1. Lepadogaster brownii, Risso, Eur. Mirid. iii. p. 272. — Nice. 



2. rafinesqui, Costa, Fauna del regno diNapoU; Mull, df Troseh. I. c- 



Mediterranean. 



3. latirostris, Costa, I. c. ; Mull. 8r Trosch. I. c. — Mediterranean. 



