THE FISHES OF THE IRISH SEA. 45 
GASTEROSTEUS SPINACHIA, Linn.—Fifteen-spined Stickleback. 
(Day’s British Fishes, vol. I., p. 246, Pl. LXVIII, Fig. 5.) 
(Fish. Mus., Zool. Dep., Univ. Coll., Liverpool.) Zocad name, ‘* Jack Sharp.” 
This is more of a marine species than the last two. It ranges from the Baltic to the 
Bay of Biscay. It has been recorded from Anglesey; from pools amongst rocks at Hilbre 
Island, Caldy Blacks, &c. (Byerley) ; and we have had it from Morecambe, Menai Straits, 
and the Barrow Channel. It is common in Port Erin Bay in summer. 
B. PHARYNGOGNATHI. 
Right and left lower pharyngeal bones fused with each other to form a single bone 
in floor of mouth, 
This little section includes the Wrasses, and is distinguished from the last group by 
the fused condition of the lower pharyngeal bones in the floor of the mouth. 
Family Lasrip#, 
Lasrus MACuLATUS, Bl.—Ballan Wrasse. 
(Day’s British Fishes, vol. I., p. 252, Pl. LXX. and LXXI.) 
(Fish. Mus., Zool. Dep., Univ. Coll., Liverpool. ) 
This Wrasse is distributed from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean. 
It has been recorded from the Skerries, Anglesey (Donovan), and Colwyn Bay on 
the North Wales coast; and we find it at Piel in Barrow Channel, and in the Menai 
Straits. It is occasionally taken by our Fisheries steamer on the off-shore grounds between 
Lancashire and the Isle of Man. 
LaBRUS MIxTUS, Fries and Eks.—Cook Wrasse. 
(Day’s British Fishes, vol. I., p. 256, Pl. LXXII.) 
(Fish. Mus., Zool. Dep., Univ. Coll., Liverpool.) 
This species ranges from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean. 
In our district it has been recorded from Anglesey (Pennant), and from the Manx 
coast. It is abundant in and around Port Erin Bay in summer, We have seen it brought 
into Fleetwood by trawlers. 
CRENILABRUS MELOPS (Linn.)—Gilt-head. 
(Day’s British Fishes, vol. I., p. 260, Pl. LXXIII.) 
(Fish. Mus., Zool. Dep., Univ. Coll., Liverpool.) 
This fish is sometimes called Baillon’s Wrasse, or Sea-partridge, sometimes the 
Gilt-head or Gold-sinny. It ranges from Norway to the Mediterranean. Byerley records 
a specimen taken at Hoylake in 1850. 
CTENOLABRUS RUPEsTRIS (Linn.)—Gold-sinny. 
(Day’s British Fishes, vol. I. p. 264, Pl. LXXIV.) 
It ranges from Norway to the Mediterranean. North Wales (Eyton); shore near 
Aberystwyth ; also Liverpool Bay. 
