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given are Weymouth, Boumemoulh, Sheerness, Harwich, and Sonthend-on-Sea. 

 June 18th, 1880, about sixteen -were brought alive to the Westminster Aquarium. 

 I first saw them being transferred to a tank of still water. The most lively used 

 their fins like other fishes, but as they got worse the dorsal commenced working 

 at a great rate, though not so rapidly as in Zeus faber. They sank down and 

 died, the head being kept highest, but some turned over on to their backs. 

 This fish has also been captured in Scotland, as already observed. Edward 

 also informs us of another example having been taken near Covie, in Banffshire, 

 in August, 1862 ; while in Ireland Andrews obtained it in a trawl in 1867, off 

 Ventry Harbour. 



This fish, the appearance of which in Britain was first noticed in 1825, is 

 now in abundance in limited tracts, and taken from March until October. 

 It is remarkable, in that it may be banded or plain, the bands, it having been 

 suggested, being due to the example having been in a dark locality. 



Attains to 7 inches in length. 



