ON THE FAUNA OF IRELAND. 389 
Treland. Great Britain. 
Callionymus Lyra, L. a 
7 Dracunculus, Z. + 
Of our desiderata here, the Blennius ocellaris and B. Ga- 
lerita are rare and apparently local on the coast of Great 
Britain ; the Gobius albus has been taken only in the Solway 
Firth, and but on one occasion. 
In Ireland, the Blennius Pholis and Murenoides guttata 
are very common around the coast; the B. Gattorugine is of 
occasional occurrence in the north; the B. Yarrellit (B. pal- 
micornis of Yarrell’s and Jenyns’s works) has been obtained 
on the Antrim coast by the Ordnance Survey. By Templeton 
the Zoarces was noticed in one instance; but little is known 
with certainty of Anarrhicas as an Irish fish. Of the genus 
Gobius, the G. minutus and G. Ruthensparit (G. bipunctatus, 
Yarr.) are the most widely diffused in their very different places 
of abode on our coasts, the former, as elsewhere, the more 
abundant; G. niger and G. Britannicus* I have only from 
the more southern portion of the island; G. gracilis and G. 
unipunctatus are of occasional occurrence with G. minutus. 
Callionymus Lyra and C. Dracunculus are not unfrequently 
taken from north to south, the latter the more commonly, 
Fam. Lophiide. 
Ireland. Great Britain. 
Lophius Piscatorius, Z. (common). “Ic 
Fam. Labride. 
Ireland. Great Britain. 
Labrus variabilis, Thomp.} (L. ma- aot 
culatus, Bloch.) 
»  lineatus, Don. (not specifi- i 
cally distinct from the last). } 
0 Labrus Comber, Gimel. 
»  Variegatus, Gmel. 
4. 
»  Vetula, B/.? 
»,  trimaculatus, Penn.t 
0 Julis vulgaris, Flem. 
Crenilabrus Tinca, Flem. + 
FY; Cornubicus, (La- 
‘ one 
brus Cornubicus, : aL 
Penn). species§. 
5 gibbus, Flem. + 
* Zoological Proceedings, 1837, p. 61. 
+ Zoological Proceedings, 1837, p. 59. 
{ M. Agassiz informs me that ZL. carneus, Risso, of which he possesses a 
specimen so named by that author, is a distinct species from the L. carneus, 
Bloch; this latter being identical with LZ. trimaculatus as figured by Donovan. 
§ Magazine of Zoology and Botany, vol. ii. p. 442. 
