472 TEN YEAKS IN SWEDEN. 



The spines of this fish are certainly poisonous,, and a 

 wound from one is attended with unpleasant effects. As 

 olive oil is applied to a snake bite, so the fishermen on these 

 coasts look upon the oil from the liver of the northern chi- 

 msera as an infallible remedy against the sting of the weaver. 



Couch's figure of the greater weaver does not represent 

 the fish half so handsome as I have seen it on these coasts. 



The little weaver (T. Viper a, Cuv.), which may always be 

 known by its smaller size, and the shorter hinder dorsal and 

 anal fins, with only about twenty-four rays in each, has not 

 as yet been identified in these seas. 



3. Ventrals beneath the Pectorals. 

 Gen. Mullus, L. 



Body thick ; head large, with a sloping forehead ; two 

 long appendages under chin; mouth small; opercle and 

 preopercle, smooth on the margin ; head mailed. 



8. MULLUS SURMULETUS, L. Gulstrimmig Mullus. The Sur- 

 mullet. D. 



Is only occasionally taken off the southern coast; never 

 higher than Christiania, and rarely exceeds 8 in. in length ; 

 body colour red, with three longitudinal yellow stripes along 

 the sides ; forehead sloping, not vertical. D. 8 1,8 ; 

 A. 1,7; P. 17; V. 1,5; C. 15. 



Fam. 2. SCOEPOSNOIDEI. 



Head armed with plates of mail ; no barbules under the 

 chin ; otherwise, this family much resembles the last. 



Gen. Trigla, L. 



Body long, covered with very small scales ; head large ; 

 forehead sloping; two dorsals, the first very high and 

 pointed. But the best distinguishing mark of this genus are 

 the three long finger-like detached rays in front of the long 

 pectorals. 



0. TRIGLA GUENAEDUS, Bl. Vanlig Gnoding. The Grey 

 Gurnard. D. 



