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fish, referred to in connexion with the solenette, \_anle, p. 207, 208,] is the 

 only Irish one which has come under my inspection. 



The Cornish Sucker, or Ocellated Sucker, 

 Lepadogaster Cornubiensis, Flem., 



Has been taken on the North-East and West coasts. 



The following notes were published by me in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society for 1835 : — 



" The only Irish specimen of this fish which I have seen was taken by Pro- 

 fessor Harvey on the coast of Clare. The number of fin-rays in this specimen 

 diflers very much from that stated by Pennant and Donovan to exist in the 

 ocellated sucker : 



Pennant gives . . D. 11 ; A. 9 ; V. 4 ; 



Donovan . . . D. 11; A. 10; P. 17;C. 6; 



Dr. Harvey's specimen has D. 20 ; A. 11 ; V. 4; P. 19 ; C. 14; B. 6; 

 and exhibits, in addition to the two filaments which appear before each eye, a 

 third fleshy appendage placed nearer to the eye, and unconnected with the 

 others. Notwithstanding these discrepancies, the general accordance of Dr. 

 Harvey's fish with the figures of the Ocellated Sucker given by the authors above- 

 quoted, and its possessing the character whence the trivial name has been de- 

 rived, make me unwilling, without further investigation, to consider the species 

 distmct." 



In the Ordnance Memoir of County Londonderry (Notices, p. 14), it is 

 stated that 



" several specimens were received in Oct., 1837, from Portrush (near the 

 Giant's Causeway). Their colour was a rich blue, the spots behind the eyes 

 being of a deeper tint." 



At Lahinch, in the County of Clare, Professor E. Forbes and I obtained 

 two specimens in July, 1840, between tide-marks. Early in August, 1845, 

 several examples, all full grown or nearly so, were taken under stones 

 between tide-marks, at Tory Island, off Donegal, by Mr. Hyndman. 



The Bimaculated Sucker, Lepadogaster bimaculatiis, Flem., 



Has been obtained on the North-East, East, and West of the island. 



The following notice of this species was communicated by me to the 

 Linnaean Society, in the Session 1834-5, and is referred to in the Proceed- 

 ings of the ZooL Society, 1835, p. 82. 



" Cyclopterus bimaculatus, Don., Lepadogaster bimacidatus, Flem. — The only 

 localities in which I find it stated that the Cyclopterus bimaculatus has occurred 

 being the more southern shores of England, I trust that, in connexion with 

 what I have before had the honour of communicating to the Linnaean Society 

 on the subject of the Cyclopterus Moiitagui, the following observations in proof 

 of the former species having a more extensive geographical range than yet al- 

 lotted to it, will be at least deemed worthy the brief space they occupy. 



" When dredging near to Bangor, in the County of Down, on the .3rd Sept., 

 1834, accompanied by Mr. Hyndman, a specimen of Cyclopterus was brought 

 up from a depth of 5 or 6 fathoms, which seemed to me C. bi7}iaculatus. The 

 spots from which this species derives its scientific as well as trivial English 

 name, were, however, found to be wanting, though the specimens are of adult 

 size ; the tail to be rounded and not ' even at the end,' as that of the C. bima- 

 culatus is described by Pennant and Montagu, and the pectoral fih to consist 

 of about 18 instead of 11 rays, as attributed to it by Donovan and Fleming. 



" All these differences, including the immaculate appearance, exist in the only 

 other specimen I have obtained, which was taken in Strangford Lough, from 

 a similar depth, during another dredging excursion in company with Mr. Hynd- 

 man, on the 11th of Oct. last. 



