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flukes, and baited with lug- worm, in five fathoms of water. The 

 females are sometimes common in Portrush harbour during 

 summer and autumn ; but I never caught a male there. They 

 are somewhat uncertain in their appearance, being numerous in 

 some seasons and scarce in others. (Achill Island. — A. Gr. M.) 



CycJopterus lum'pus. — Adult examples are occasionally taken in 

 the salmon nets at Portrush during April and May, but they are 

 never common. During the summer and autumn months I have, 

 however, frequently taken the young, of from half an inch to an 

 inch in length, adhering to crab-creels and tangle. 



\Iji'pans vulgaris. — We do not think that this species has any 

 claim to a place in the Irish list.] 



Anarrhichas lupus. — The records of this fish as Irish are not 

 very satisfactory. Templeton only mentions having seen them in 

 Belfast market, and merely coiijectures that they may have been 

 caught in the Bay. I never saw or heard of one in the Portrush 

 market. Dr. Jacob's record is possibly correct, as may be also 

 Dr. Ball's; but in no case is it positively proved where the ex- 

 amples were captured. There has not been any native specimen 

 in the National Museum within Mr. More's recollection, that 

 alluded to by Thompson having disappeared. 



Blennius galerita. — Dr. Day has transferred the Irish localities 

 of this species .to Carelophus ascanni (see below), a fish which Mr. 

 More has not personally taken. The announcement of the dis- 

 covery of Montagu's blenny on the Irish coast runs thus : "Several 

 at Dingle harbour, 1868 ; coast of, and islands off, Connemara, 

 1869." (A. G. More, in Zoologist, 1878, p. 297.) 



Blennius pholis. — It is not necessary that the water should flow 

 at every flood into the rock-pools frequented by the shanny, since 

 I know many haunts, which only receive an accession of sea water 

 during stormy weather or exceptionally high spring-tides. This 

 species is more numerous and of larger size in shallow pools along 

 the rocky shore to the north of Inver, Donegal Bay, than I have 

 met with it elsewhere. 



Carelophus ascanii. — Since noticing the above species in the 

 Zoologist for January, 1876, I obtained so many examples from 

 crab-creels during the warm months of that and the two following 

 years, that I consider it quite as numerous as Blennius gattorugine, 

 with which it is usually found associated. They are only taken 



