94 GENERA AND SPECIES. 



the pectorals extend to the front edges of the anal and second 

 dorsal ; the caudal is square. The lateral line has bony plates. 

 The head is broad and flat ; the mouth extends to the middle of the 

 eye. This fish, which is about a foot long, is reddish or brownish, 

 with white spots on the side. It is a coast-fish like the last, but 

 haunts the rocks and stony ground in rather deeper water, and is 

 fairly common. 



Crenilabrus. Plate xiv. L ABRIDGE. 



108. melops, CONNER. Purplish above ; lighter below. 



109. cornubicus, GOLDSINNY. Greenish above ; yellow below. 



The Conner has the usual wrasse-like dorsal, with from 14 to 17 

 spines and 8 or 9 more closely-set rays ; in the anal there are 3 

 spines and 9 or 10 rays, in the caudal 14 rays, in the pectorals 14 

 rays, and in the ventrals a spine and 5 rays. The dorsal spines 

 become longer as they approach the rays, and the rays are higher 

 than any of them. In the lateral line are from 32 to 35 scales ; it 

 follows the curve of the back, and, like it, runs straight in the tail 

 portion, the tail having almost parallel sides and the caudal being 

 nearly square. The mouth does not reach the eye ; the hinder edge 

 of the gill-cover is toothed. In colour this wrasse is purplish or 

 reddish, with or without bands and spots. It is 9 inches long, and 

 swims in shoals among the rocks in shallower water than any of the 

 other wrasses except the Goldsinny. 



The Goldsinny differs from the Conner only in colour, it being 

 greenish brown above and yellow below, with 6 faint bands on the 

 body, and no spots on the fins, though there is a spot at the base of 

 the caudal fin. It can be conveniently considered as one of the 

 varieties of the Conner, the typical coloration of which is purple, with 

 8 or 9 distinct bands on the body, round, ocellated spots on the 

 second dorsal and caudal, round, blackish spots on the anal, and 

 stripes across the cheeks and gill-covers. When there is no black 

 mark behind the eye, and the reddish back is spotted with green, 

 and the abdomen with silver, and the fins have red bands, we have 

 C. rone. When there is a black spot behind the eye, another at the 

 vent, and another at the tail, and the cheeks are banded with colour, 

 the variety is C. pennantii ; when the body and fins are marbled with 

 brown, and there is no spot behind the eye, it is C. norvegicus ; and 

 when the fins are striped with red and green, and there is a spot at 

 both eye and tail, it is C, couchii. 



Crystallogobius. Plate ix. GOBIIDJE. 

 71. nihsonii, NILSSON s GOBY. Scaleless and transparent. 



This rare little fish is an inch and a half long. It has 2 spines 

 in its first dorsal, 19 or 20 rays in the second dorsal, 21 rays in the 

 anal, 14 or 15 in the caudal, 30 or 31 in its pectorals, and a spine 

 and 5 rays in its ventrals. Its dorsal spines are wide apart, and its 

 tail fin curves inwards on each of the three outer edges. It has 

 been dredged from rather 4eep water in the northern part of the 

 North Sea, 



