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mode of life, and continued residence oa the water, even 

 <\i the most turbulent sea, and during the most rigorous 

 seasons. The second commimication was the description 

 and .'lauing of a new genus of insect, which inhabits the New insect. 

 cellular membrane of the gannet, and to which Col. Mon- 

 tague gives the name of celhdaria bassani. — At the sam6 ' 

 meeting, Mr. P. Neil! laid before the Society a list of such 

 fishes belonging tp the four Linnean orders, apodes, jugu- Fishes near 

 Irires, thoracici, and abdominales, as he bad ascertained to Edm^burgh. 

 be natives of the waters in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, 

 accojupanied with valuable remarks, and illustrated by spe- 

 cimens of some of the raver species. Of the apodes he 

 entimerated 4 species belonging to 3 genera : 2 tb muraena, 

 I anarhichas, and 1 aramodytes. Of the jugulares he 

 mentioned 13 species, belonging to 3 genera: 1 calliony- 

 mus (the gemmeous dragonet, for, from examining many 

 specimens, the author ha;l concluded, that the sordid dra- S>Qxi\A drago 



gonct of Mr. Pennant and Dr. Shaw is not a dlslinct spe- »f ,/hefemal* 

 " 'of the goaiine- 



cies, but merely the femak of tbe gemmeous dragonet), ous. 



9 of the gCMUs gadtis, and 2 blennius. Of the thoracici he 

 stated 22 species, belonging to 9 genera : i gohius, 2 cot- 

 tus, 2 zeus, the doree and the opah (a specimen of this last 

 most resplendent fish having been taken off Craraond in 

 the Firtli of Forth some years ago, and being still pre- 

 served in the museum of P. Walker, Esq.), 7 pleuronectes, 

 I spariis, the toothed gilt head {a rare fish, of which only 

 two specimens have occurred in the Fnth of Forth), 2 

 pcrca, 3 gasterosteus, with 1 trigla. Of the abdominales 

 he had ascertained 14 species, belonging to 7 genera: 1 

 cobitis, 4 salmo, 3 escx, the pike, garpike, and the saury 

 o:- gctmlanook (which last, though rare in England, is ndt, 

 he stated, uncommon at Edinburgh, but arrives in the 

 Frith almost every autumn in large shoals), 3 clupea. Of the 

 genus cyprinus, of which no fewer than ten species inhabit 

 tlie rivers and ponds of England (including the carp, tench, 

 gudgeon, dace, roach, bream, &c.), only one insignificant 

 species, the author remarked, is found near Edinburgh, 

 viz. the common niinow. Of the genus scomber, the 

 mackarel is got in the entrance of the Frith of Forth. Mr. 

 Neill reserved tiie notice of the amphibia nantes of Linnteus, 

 including; the ray tribe, to a future jceeting. 



