178 GRABHAM : NOTES ON SCARBOROUGH FISHES. 
Megastoma veliolans. Sail Fluke or Whiff. I examined 
this fish in a shop, in company with Mr. John Cordeaux, by 
whom it was identified. If all that is said about it be true, 
it is a most interesting species. 
Labrus maculatus. Ballan Wrasse. Known in the district 
erch. These handsome fish are fairly common ; the 
largest I have seen caught weighed close upon 5 lbs. 
Belone vulgaris. Gar-Fish. Frequently taken in the trawl- 
ets. 
Orthagoriscus mola. Sunfish. I have only seen one specimen 
en here, but it is said to occur at intervals. 
Petromyzon marinus. A nice specimen weighing over 2 |bs., 
of this Sea Lamprey, was brought to me last summer. 
Callionymus lyra. Yellow Skullpin or Gemmeous 
Dragonet. Mr. W. J. Clarke showed me a specimen of this 
prettily marked fish, taken off the shore. 
Syngnathus equoreus. Ocean Pipe Fish. Fairly distributed 
along the coast. 
Centronotus gunellus. Nine Eyes. Butter Gunnell. 
Generally distributed. 
Squalus catulus. Lesser-spotted Dog Fish. Very scarce. 
Acanthias vulgaris. Picked or Spinous Dog Fish, Very 
scarce. I have only seen one specimen here of this, and the 
preceding fish. A few years ago Dog Fish were so plentiful 
as to be a great nuisance to fishermen ; now they are hardly seen. 
Regalecus banksii. Banks’ Oar-fish. Last summer, when 
walking one day through the village of Flamborough, I was 
attracted by a small tent, having a notice outside to the effect, 
that on paying the sum of one penny the public would be 
permitted to view some monster of the deep, as ‘mythical as 
the Sphinx and as rare as the Dodo.’ As never miss 
such opportunities of acquiring knowledge, I entered, and 
bankstt, Banks’ Oar-fish. Speaking from memory, it was 
fourteen or fifteen feet in length and very fairly set up, though 
the case in which it was, contained a tortoise or two and several 
other incongruities, but if done up and recased it would make 
a very presentable specimen, and it seems a thousand pities 
that it is not acquired by some Yorkshire Museum instead of 
being left to go mouldy and decay in a barn for the greater 
part of the year. It was. I believe, killed on the rocks by some 
Naturalist, 
