THE FISHES OF THE IRISH SEA. 43 



BLENNIUS GATTORUGINE, Bloch. Gattoruglne. 

 (Day's British Fishes, vol. I., p. 198, PI. LIX.) 



This fish was first found .off Anglesey by Pennant ; also Holyhead (Eyton) ; but we 

 have no certain records of its capture since. 



BLENNIUS GALERITA, Linn. Montagu's Blenny. 



(Day's British Fishes, vol. I., p. 200, PI. LX., Fig. i), 



Once captured in the creek dividing- Holyhead Island from Anglesey (Eyton). 



BLENNIUS OCELLARIS, Linn. Butterfly Blenny. 



(Day's British Fishes, vol. I., p. 201, PI. LIX., Fig. 2.) 



(Fish. Mus. , Zool. Dep., Univ. Coll., Liverpool.) 



This species ranges from the British Isles to the Mediterranean. It has only been 

 found at a few places in our seas, but 'Ms recorded as having been dredged up on a 

 scallop bank, in twenty fathoms of water, off Ballaugh, in the Isle of Man, in June, 1834" 

 (Forbes). A single specimen was trawled from our Lancashire Fisheries steamer "John 

 Fell," 15 miles W. by N. of Morecambe Bay Lightship, on May agth, 1894, and was sent 

 by Captain Wignall to our Fisheries Laboratory, at Liverpool, where it was identified by 

 Mr. A. Scott. 



BLENNIUS PHOLIS, Linn. Shanny. 



(Day's British Fishes, vol. I., p. 203, PI. LX.) 

 (Fish. Mus., Zool. Dep., Univ. Coll., Liverpool.) Local name, " Shanny." 



This common species ranges from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean. It is found 

 almost everywhere in pools between tide-marks round the British coast. It is one of the 

 commonest of shore fishes in our neighbourhood, both on the Lancashire side, and at Port 

 Erin and elsewhere in the Isle of Man, and in rock pools in North Wales and Anglesey ; 

 also in the Barrow Channel. 



It is interesting to "notice that Pennant found it to be common in Anglesey, and 

 that Donovan "observed that in the 30 years that had elapsed since Pennant's remarks 

 were published, he found it had disappeared (except in one spot), and this he attributed to 

 the tangle having been almost eradicated for the use of glass-makers, &c." 



CARELOPHUS ASCANII (Walb.) YarreH's Blenny. 

 (Day's British Fishes, vol. I., p. 206, PI. LX., Fig. 2.) 



(Fish. Mus., Zool. Dep., Univ. Coll., Liverpool.) 



This fish ranges from Scandinavia to the British Isles. Although rare, it has been 

 recorded from many points round our coasts, several of which are off the east coast of 

 Ireland. 



PHOLIS GUNNELLUS (Linn.) Butterfish. 



(See Centronotus gunnellus, Day's British Fishes, vol. I., p. 208, PI. LXL, Fig. i.) 

 (Fish. Mus., Zool. Dep., Univ. Coll., Liverpool.) Local Name, "Butterfish." 

 This common little fish extends from Iceland and Greenland to the shores of France. 

 It is abundant all round our coasts in shore pools> and under stones between tide marks. 



