170 lOOLOGT. 



4. Echineis, Remora, or Sucking-Fish, Head furnished 

 with a flat, ovate, transversely sulcated shield ; body 

 without scales ; branchiostegous rays six. 



$. Coryphena. Cortphene. 1/ead suddenly sloping down- 

 wards; gill-membrane &\e rayed; dorsal Jin extend- 

 ing the whole length of the back. 



6. Macrourus. Immenset. Head and eyes large; body 



terminating in a long pointed tail. 



7. Gobius. Goby. Head small ; eyes contiguous, with two 



punctures between them; oewfra^^n* united into th« 

 form of a funnel ; gill-membrane five rayed. 



8. Gobiomorus. Characters as in the last genus, excepting 



the ventral fins being distinct. 



9. Cottus. Bull-Head. Head large, flat, armed with sharp 



spines ; eyes placed vertically ; gill-membrane six 

 rayed ; body lengthened out at the extremity. 



10. Scorpasna. Head large, cirrous, aculeated, blunt, 

 without scales ; eye* approximated ; teeth in thejAws, 

 palate and throat ; gill-membrane seven rayed ; dorsal 

 Jin single, long, the anterior rays spinous. 



11. Zeus. Doree. iiearf compressed, sloping ; body deepy 

 greatly compressed sideways ; first dorsal Jin furnished 

 with long sleader filaments issuing behind each ray of 

 the fin; gill-metnbrane ae\en rayed. 



