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in the water, or a blister. After death this loose membrane, 

 which fishermen assert it can blow up at pleasure, becomes 

 opaque. For the same cause it is perhaps termed lug, or 

 " a leaf," at Penzance and St. Ives ; bothock, or " large 

 eyes." Said to be known as kleg at Scarborough ; siller- 

 fish and jacfcte-downies, Moray Firth ; smeltie, Zetland ; also 

 brassie in Scotland ; deillion at Carnarvon, also bragay and 

 stink-alive. 



B. vii., D. 12 | 20-23 | 19-20, V. 6, A. 27-32 | 17-20, 

 Vert. 48. 



Length of head 4\ to 4f ; height of body 3^ to 4 in the 

 total length. Eye. Diameter 3 to 3^- in the length of the 

 head, I diameter from the end of the snout, and I to \\ 

 diameters apart. Snout obtuse, scarcely overhanging the 

 jaw, the upper of which is slightly the longer. The pos- 

 terior extremity of the maxilla reaches to beneath the 

 middle of the eye. A barbel as long as the eye is present 

 below the chin. Teeth. Cardiform in the jaws with an 

 outer enlarged row in the upper. Fins. First dorsal arises 

 over the base of the pectoral ; its second or third ray 

 longest, and no interspace between its last rays and the 

 second dorsal fin, which is connected at its base with the 

 third dorsal, but does not extend to the base of the caudal 

 fin. The first anal fin commences beneath the middle or 

 posterior third of the first dorsal ; the second anal fin 

 similar to the third dorsal. The ventral is inserted some 

 little distance anterior to the base of the pectoral. Vent 

 situated beneath the anterior portion of the first dorsal fin. 

 Lateral-line. Curves very gently to below the last half of 

 the second dorsal, from whence it proceeds straight to the 

 centre of the base of the caudal fin. Colours. Of a beau- 

 tiful bronze during life, with five or six broad vertical bands 

 of rather darker colour descending from the back to the 





