LEPADOGASTER.] PISCES (OSSEI) MALACOPT. 469 



description was taken, was caught at Weymouth, and is now in the 

 Museum of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. It appears to differ 

 from Mr. Hanmer's fish in its colours, but as these were not observed in 

 the recent state, and may possibly have been altered by the preserving 

 liquor, I have suppressed any notice of them, and substituted a part of 

 Mr. Hanmer's description. It also differs in the larger number of dorsal 

 fin-rays, which amount, in Mr. Hanmer's fish, to about sixty-eight. Fur- 

 ther observation is necessary in order to decide whether, in this instance, 

 I have confounded two nearly allied species. 



GEN. 58. LEPADOGASTER, Gouan. 



157. L. Cornubiensis, Flem. (Cornish Sucker.) 

 A double cirrus in front of each eye : dorsal and anal 

 fins connected by a membrane with the caudal. 



L. Cornubiensis, Flem. Brit. An. p. 189. Cyclopterus Cornubicus, 

 Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. v. p. 397. C. ocellatus, Don. Brit. Fish. 

 vol. iv. pi. 76. Turt. Brit. Faun. p. 116. Small Suck-Fish, 

 Borl. Cornw. p. 269. pi. 25. f. 28, & 29. Jura Sucker, Penn. Brit. 

 Zool. vol. in. p. 137. pi. 22. no. 59. Id. (Edit. 1812.) vol. in. 

 p. 181. pi. 25. Couch in Linn. Trans, vol. xiv. p. 87. 



LENGTH. Four inches. 



DESCRIPT. (Form.) Head and anterior part/6f the body broad and 

 depressed; towards the caudal compressed and tapering: snout very 

 much produced, spatula-shaped, narrower and more flattened than the 

 head; gape wide; jaws nearly equal, the lower one a little the shortest; 

 both furnished with minute sharp teeth ; lips a little reflected : length of 

 the head rather more than one-third of the entire length : eyes lateral ; 

 the space between them equalling about twice their diameter; imme- 

 diately in advance of the anterior angle of each a membranous cirrus 

 with a second minute filament branching out from its base ; behind the 

 cirrus a small fleshy tubercle: gill-opening small: skin smooth and 

 naked : pectorals large, placed immediately behind the gill-opening, and 

 extending downwards to the lower surface of the body, where the rays 

 become suddenly stronger, and the membrane, doubling forwards, passes 

 on to unite with that of the opposite fin under the throat ; the membranes 

 of the pectorals thus united enclose a disk, and form an hemispherical 

 cavity; behind this cavity is a second, larger, circular, concave disk, 

 formed by the united ventrals : dorsal commencing beyond the middle of 

 the entire length, and reaching very nearly to the caudal, with which its 

 membrane is connected : anal shorter, commencing further back, united 

 in like manner to the caudal : rays of both fins articulated but simple : 

 caudal rounded : number of fin- ray s, 



D. 19; A. 11 ; C. 14; P. 18, and 4 stouter ones. 



(Colours.) Dusky, or purplish brown, (according to Mr. Couch, some- 

 times crimson,) with minute inconspicuous spots ; flesh-coloured beneath : 

 on the nape, behind the eyes, two ocellated spots ; " each consisting of a 

 large obovate spot of deep purple, enclosed within a broad pale brownish 



