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contrived to get down the escape-pipe, and was killed. The resem- 
blance borne by these lesser forkbeards to the dark variety of Liparis 
Montagui, which is the most common on the grounds where they 
were caught, is very striking when the fish are viewed from above. 
Even the dermal papille of Montagu’s sucker are represented, though 
much less closely set, on the head of the gadvid. 
Examples have been recorded from most of the British coasts, and 
the species has been taken in estuarine waters before, but I do 
not know that there is a distinct record of its occurrence at the 
extreme margin, as in the case of our first specimen. I imagine 
it must occur pretty regularly in the Humber, though I have found 
no one here who recollects to have met with it before. The 
resemblance to Montagu’s sucker would probably account for its being 
overlooked by shrimp-trawlers.—K. W. L. H. 
Chimera monstrosa, Linn—A male and a female of this species 
were taken in the second week of May by a Grimsby smack trawling 
from 70 into 135 fathoms, at the edge of the deep water to the 
north of the Great Fisher Bank, 320 miles from the Spurn. The 
abdominal viscera had been removed before they came under my 
observation. ‘The male measures 274 inches in total length, the 
caudal filament being nearly perfect, whilst the pre-anal region 
measures 94 inches. All the accessory sexual organs are well 
developed ; it is the smallest mature male that I have seen. The 
female was about the same size.—H, W. L. H. 
Lumpenus lampetreformis, Walbaum.—I have received a specimen 
taken, in company with another, by Mr. F. Klotz, s.s. “ Dominican,” 
at 23 to 25 fathoms, 240 miles HK. $ N. of the Spurn Light-vessel 
during the last week of July, 1892. The species was first added to 
the British list by the occurrence of an example on the east coast of 
Scotland (vide Day, Rep. 8. F. B., 1884, p. 78), and has since been 
recorded by Dr. Giinther from the west coast (P. R. 8. E., vol. xv, 
1888, p. 211). The locality from which mine was derived lies 
outside the British area, but I was under the impression that it was 
rather further south than any that had been recorded. Dr. Giinther, 
however, informs me that he has seen a specimen said to have been 
taken on the coast of Norfolk.—E. W. L. H. 
Gastrosteus pungitius, Linn—T'he ten-spined stickleback is com- 
mon in some brick-field ponds at Beaconthorpe, though not so 
numerous as the three-spined species. Both kinds have been used 
at the Cleethorpes Aquarium for some time for feeding anemones, 
especially Urticina felina, and I had never noticed that one species 
