470 PISCES (OSSEI) MALACOPT. [LEPADOGASTER. 



ring, and embellished in the centre with a brilliant blue dot, or pupil * : " 

 dorsal, anal, and caudal fins, bright purplish red. 



First observed by Borlase on the coast of Cornwall, where it has been 

 since noticed by Mr. Couch. Found by Pennant in the Sound of Jura ; 

 by Montagu t, in some plenty, at Milton, on the coast of Devonshire, 

 adhering to the rocks at low water. Obs. All our English authors repre- 

 sent this species as having only eleven rays in the dorsal fin ; and this is 

 made by Fleming a ground of distinction between it and the L. Gouani 

 of Risso, which is said to have a larger number. In the only two British 

 specimens, however, which I have had an opportunity of examining, 

 they amounted to no less than nineteen. Possibly we may have two spe- 

 cies in our seas, which have been hitherto confounded $. I may add, that 

 in the above specimens, although there were two filaments before each 

 eye, the second was extremely minute compared with the first, and much 

 smaller than represented and described by Donovan. 



158. L. bimaculatus, Flem. (Bimaculated Sucker.) 

 No cirri before the eyes : dorsal and anal fins short ; 

 not connected with the caudal : behind the pectoral, on 

 each side, a purple spot. 



L. bimaculatus, Flem. Brit. An. p. 190. Cyclopterus bimaculatus, 

 Turt. Linn. vol. i. p. 907. Don. Brit. Fish. vol. iv. pi. 78. Turt. 

 Brit. Faun. p. 115. Bimaculated Sucker, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. in. 

 App. p. 397. pi. 22. Id. (Edit. 1812.) vol. in. p. 181. pi. 25. Mont, 

 in Linn. Trans, vol. vn. p. 293. 



LENGTH. An inch and a half; rarely more. 



DESCRIPT. (Form.) General form resembling that of the last species, 

 but the head and anterior part of the body more depressed: snout conical, 

 with the sides not so much hollowed out: jaws equal; teeth more de- 

 veloped, those in the lower jaw sharp and curved : eyes further asunder, 

 and placed more laterally ; no cirri in front of them : pectorals, and the 

 two disks which form the organs of adhesion, similar : dorsal short, and 

 placed far behind : anal answering to it : both fins terminating at a small 

 distance from the caudal, with which they are not in any way connected : 

 caudal narrow, the end nearly even : 



D. 6 ; A. 6 ; C. 12 ; P. about 20, and 4. 



(Colours.) Back and sides pink or rose-colour, with spots and interrupted 

 fasciae of white : behind the pectoral fin, on each side, a purple spot, sur- 

 rounded by a ring of white : irides pink, surrounded by a dark purplish 

 ring : fins variegated with pink and white : under surface of the body 

 whitish. According to Montagu , "the fry are of a green colour, mi- 

 nutely speckled with blue, and without the smallest trace of the pectoral 

 spots." 



First obtained at Wey mouth by the late Dowager Dutchess of Portland. 

 Has been since taken at the same place by Professor Henslow. Not very 

 uncommon, according to Montagu, at Torcross in Devonshire, adhering 

 to stones and old shells; procured by deep dredging. By the same means 



* Donovan. f Linn. Trans, vol. vn. p. 294. 



t Several others, allied to our British one, are noticed by Risso. 

 Wern. Mem. vol. i. p. 92. 



