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Larusfuscns, Linn. Inhabiting the Enropean and American seas, 



Larus ridibundu$, Linn. Inhabiting the whole of Europa, India, 

 and North America. 



The Fishes forwarded by Mr. Keith Abbott are all from the salt 

 water. They include twenty species. Respecting them he writes : 

 " Had I received your letter sooner I might have collected a great 

 many more fishes, but the season was gone by. There is no fish- 

 market in this place, and the people are by no meEins expert in the 

 art of catching them. The only kind of fish caught in any ąuantity 

 just now is the Anchovy, of Avhich there are two specimens in the 

 jar of spirits : these are taken in astonishing quantities. The Her- 

 ring, Mackarel, and Mullet (rerfand grey), are veryabundant in this 

 sea ; as likewise the Turbot, of which I send a specimen. Salmon 

 and Sturgeon are likewise occasionally caught here." 



In bringing these Fishes under the notice of the Societj'', Mr. Ben- 

 nett remarked that there were among them several -^-hich required 

 a more careful comparison with Mediterranean species than he had 

 been, at present, enabled to give to them ; but that the follo^ving ap- 

 peared to him to be distinct from any which had hitherto been de- 

 scribed. 



Trigla patjciradiata. Trigla pinnd priore dorsali sex-radiatd ; 

 sulco dorsali f ortiter armato : pinnis pectoralibus magnis, interne 

 cai'uleis, fasciis undulatis apicem versus maculdque infra medium 

 saturatioribus, hdc albo guttulatd. 



D. 6, 16. A. 15. 



Long. tot. lO^unc; capitis, 2^; capitis alt. 1-^; craniilat. 1. 



Caput leniter declive : ossa suborbitalia anticė \ix prominentia, 

 dentibus tuberculisve parvis 4 — 5 munita. 



Dentex rivūlatus. Dent. ovali-oblongus ; capite leniter proclivi ; 

 oculo majusculo : suprU aurens, maculis prasertim ad lineam latera- 

 lem nigrescentibus, vittis laterum argenteis flearuosis hinc et hinc 

 cancellatis. 

 D. 11 + 11. A. 3 + 9. P.15. 

 Long. tot. 64^ unc. ; alt. max. 1^. 



A Dent. macrophthahno^ Cuv. et Vai., differre videtur corpore 

 magis elongato, capite \dx tumido, oculo minore, pinna pectorali in 

 medio magis elongato subrotundato, caudali magis bifurca ; necnon 

 coloribus picturaąue, qua Scolopsidem cancellatum, Benn., quodam- 

 modo simulat. Maxillae inferioris, 8equė ac superioris, dentes antici 

 quatuor majores. 



Gobius sordidus. Gob. pinnd dorsali secundd priore altiore ; 

 caudali pectoraligue rotundatis : corpore vario ,• pinnis maculatis, 

 ■^ anali ventralibusęue nigro {illd late) marginatis. 

 D. 6, 1 + 17. C. 13. A. 13. P. 17. 



Crenilabrus FRfiNATūs. CrcH. ovūtus, guttūtus punctatusgve, 

 fasciis guatuor nigrescentibus tnajcillam inferiorem cingentibus : 

 pinnd caudali rotundatd. 



D. 14+10. A. 3 + 9. 



