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In Ireland it has been recorded by Thompson from the north-east and 

 west coasts. Coast of Clare (D. 20, A. 11, V. 4, P. 19, C. 14, B. vi) two filaments 

 before each eye and a third fleshy appendage placed nearer to the eye and 

 unconnected -with the others. Several examples from Portrush, Oct. 1837, 

 colour of a rich blue, the spots between the eyes of a deeper tint : Lahinch, 

 county Clare two examples, July, 1840, between tide marks. August, 1845, 

 several full-grown examples under stones between tide marks, at Tory Island, 

 off Donegal. 



The example figured life size was one of those received from Guernsey. This 

 fish attains to at least 4 inches in leng'th. 



B. Dorsal fin not continued on to the caudal. 

 2. Lepadogaster Decandolii, Plate LVII, fig. 2. 



Lepadogaster olivaceus, Risso, Ich. Nice, p. 75 and Eur. Merid. iii, p. 274. 



Lepadogaster Decandolii, Risso, Ich. Nice, p. 76 and Eur. Merid. iii, p. 275 ; 

 Cuv. Reg. Anim. ; Bris. de Barnev. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 281 ; Steind. Ich. Span. u. 

 Port. 1868, p. 20. 



Lepadogaster Jussieui, Risso, Europ. Merid. iii, p. 273. 



Lepadogaster cephalus, Thompson, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, iii, p. 34 and Nat. 

 Hist. Ireland, iv, p. 214 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes (Ed. 3) ii, p. 341. 



Lepadogaster Rafinesaui, Costa, Faun. Nap. t. xxiv, f. 1-3. 



Lepadogaster adhcerens, Bonap. Catal. 65. 



Connemara sucker, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, ii, p. 201, pi. cix. 



Lepadogaster condollii, Giinther, Catal. iii. p. 513 ; Moreau, Poiss. France, iii. 

 p. 360. 



Mirhelia Decandolii, Canest. Arch. Zool. Anat. Maggio, iii, p. 189 ; Giglioli, 

 Pesc. Ital. p. 33.. 



B. vi, D. 14-16, P. 25, V. 1/4, A. 8-11, C. 18. 



Length of head 2f to 3, of caudal fin 5|, height of body 6 in the total length. 

 Eye — diameter about 6 in the length of the head, 1 to \\ diameters from the end 

 of the snout, and slightly more apart. Body broad and compressed anteriorly, but 

 compressed in its last half. The width of the head at the occiput equals twice 

 its height. Snout somewhat spatulate, the upper jaw the longer. The maxilla 

 reaches to beneath the first third of the orbit. Nostrils near together, both 

 slightly tubular, the anterior most so. Teeth — in a patch of villiform ones at 

 the anterior portion of each jaw, while laterally they are in a single row of 

 larger and more separated conical ones. Fins — the dorsal commences about 

 midway between the front edge of the eye and the hind extremity of the 

 caudal fin : its posterior rays are higher than its anterior ones, while a membrane 

 passes from its last ray nearly to the base of the caudal fin : the anal which 

 commences beneath the commencement of the second third of the dorsal has a 

 similar membrane from its last ray to nearly the base of the caudal : the latter 

 fin is rounded at its extremity. Pectoral with a broad base, it and the ventral 

 similar to what has been described under L. Gouanii. Skin rather looser than in 

 L. Gouanii. Colour — red with carmine fins: body with numerous oval and 

 rather large light spots, some round ones on the fins. Some examples have a dark 

 ocellus on the side of the head behind the eye. 



Varieties. — This species, which is said to be sometimes nearly red, is apparently 

 subject to considerable variation in colour. 



Name. — Connemara sucker, owing to its having been first recorded as British 

 from that portion of Ireland. 



Habits. — Resembling those of the other species of the Genus. 



Means of capture. — Under stones situated between high and low water mark. 



Habitat. — Coasts of Ireland, Cornwall, the Channel Islands, and France to the 

 Mediterranean, where it is common. Couch observed that only a few examples 



