368 APPENDIX. 



Division ACANTHOPTERYGII GOBIESOCIFORMES. 

 Family GLOBIESOCID.E. 



Doubly-spotted Sucker Lepadogaster bimaculatus (Penn.) 

 Recorded from the Moray Firth by Day, Brit. Fishes, vol. i. p. 193. 



Division ACANTHOPTERYGII T.ENIIFORMES. 



Family TRACHYPTERID^. 

 Deal-fish Trachypterus ardicus (Briinn). 



Day, Brit. Fishes, vol. i. p. 219, says, under this heading : " 1847, one 

 3 feet long, at Burghead, Moray Firth (Martin) ; where Dr. Gordon 

 (Zool., p. 3460) alludes to the capture of two." 



Banks'-oar Fish Regalecus banksii (C. & V.) 

 In his Brit. Fishes, vol. ii. p. 260, Couch says of this fish : " Since the 

 capture of the example of which we have thus given an enlarged 

 account, three or four others have been met with along the north 

 shores of the kingdom, the largest of which was obtained at Kiess, a 

 few miles north of Wick, and consequently not far from the extreme 

 north of Scotland. I am indebted for the few particulars known of it 

 to Mr. Peach, who informs me that it measured 15 feet in length, and, 

 as being much injured about the head." 



Also recorded by Mr. Day from the Moray Firth in his list of fishes 

 of that place. 



Order 2. ACANTHOPTERYGII PHARYNGOGNATHI. 



Family LABRID^E. 



Striped Wrasse Labrus mixtus, Linn. 



Recorded by Dr. Day from the Moray Firth, and there is a specimen in 

 the Dunrobin Museum, caught off there in September 1870. 



Gold-sinny Ctenolabrus rupestris (Linn.) 



A specimen taken at Dunrobin, 1876. 

 Baillon's Wrasse Crenilabrus melops (Linn.) 

 Day, Brit. Fishes, vol. i. p. 263, remarks that, according to Martin, this 

 species is often met with in the Moray Firth, and it is recorded by Dr. 

 Joass as occurring in the neighbourhood of Golspie. 



Ballan Wrasse Labrus maculatus, Bl. 



Mr. Houstoun informs us that this species is seen on the east coast of 

 Sutherland. 



Order 3. ANACANTHINI. 

 Division ANACANTHINI GADOIDEI. 



Family GADID.E. (Cuv.) 

 Cod Gadus morrhua, Linn. 

 Abundant all round the coast. 



