316 ANACANTHINI. 



uncommon in Berwickshire (Johnston) : also at Glasgow (Yarrell). It is resident 

 and common off rocky shores from Redcar to Flamborough (Yorkshire Vertebrata) : 

 tiken in the Norfolk estuary in August, 1870, and September, 1871 (Plowright), 

 Yarmouth (Paget), also abundant at Cromer among stones at low water (Gurney): 

 Lincolnshire flat, plentiful (Yarrell) : mouth of the Thames : and very common off 

 the Kentish coast, especially during autumn (Yarrell) : Sussex, and generally along 

 the south, coast, examples from Plymouth and Cornwall being in the National 

 collection : it is occasionally captured at the mouth of the Exe (Parfitt) : Weymouth 

 (Gosse) : Brixham (Parnell), common along Cornwall and occasionally found 

 in Mount's Bay about low water-mark (Cornish). I have personally taken it 

 from rock pools at Penzance. Bristol Channel (Couch), and an example has been 

 captured in South Wales. 



In Ireland it is distributed round the coast, and is said by Thompson to be more 

 common than M. tricirrata : he obtained examples from rock pools in numerous 

 localities. 



The example figured, life size, is a male from Brighton. The species has been 

 recorded up to 18 inches in length by Fleming. 



2. Motella cimbria, Plate LXXXIX, fig. 1. 



Gadus cimbritis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 440 ; Bonn. Atl. Ich. p. 50; Gmel. 

 Linn. p. 1174; Lacep. ii, p. 442 ; Straussenfelt, Vet. Akad. Handl. 1773, p. 22, 

 t. ii ; Goode and Bean, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. i, p. 362. 



Enclielyopus cimbricus, Bl. Schn. p. 50, t. ix. 



Motella cimbria, Nilss. Prod. p. 48, and Skand. Faun, iv, p. 587 ; Yarrell, 

 Brit. Fish. (Ed. 2) ii, p. 274, c. fig. (Ed. 3) i, p. 579 ; Parn. Wern. Mem. vii, 

 p. 449, pi. xliv, and Fish. Firth of Forth, p. 289, pi. xlvii; White, Catal. p. 94; 

 Kroyer, Dan. Fiske, ii, p. 198, c. fig. ; Giinther, Catal. iv, p. 367 ; Mcintosh, Fish. 

 St. Andrew's, p. 178 ; Collett, Norges Fiske, p. 116 ; Whither, Ich. Dan. Mar. 

 p. 33. 



Motella caicdata, Storer, Proc. Boston Am. Ac. 1848, p. 5. 



Rhinonemus caudacitta, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 1862, p. 241. 



Four-bearded rockling, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, iii, p. Ill, pi. cl, f. 2. 



B. vii, D. /50, P. 15, Y. 6, A. 44, C. 31. 



Length of head 5|- to 6, of caudal fin 7, height of body 8 in tlie total length. 

 Eye — diameters 4| to 5^ in the length of the bead, 1 to lj diameters from the end 

 of the snout, and 1 apart. The greatest height of the head rather exceeds one- 

 half of its length. Snout broad and obtuse, projecting over the upper jaw, which 

 last overhangs the lower jaw : posteriorly the maxilla extends to beneath the 

 hind edge of the orbit. Barbels — four, one slightly anterior to each front nostril ; 

 one on or close to the upper lip : and the fourth beneath the symphysis of the 

 lower jaw. Teeth — cardiform in the jaws, and in a patch upon the vomer : none 

 upon the palatines or tongue. Fins — the first dorsal commences above the middle 

 of the opercle and extends to above the middle of the pectoral fin, the length of 

 its base equals half that of the head : the rays of the posterior portion of the 

 dorsal fin, except the last few, are higher than those in the remainder of its 

 extent : the rays in the posterior portion of the anal similarly elongated. Pectoral 

 rounded and as long as the postorbital portion of the head. Colours — of a 

 chestnut brown along the back, becoming lighter on the sides and beneath. 

 Dorsal fin gray edged with white and having a dark oval blotch posteriorly on 

 its elevated portion. Anal with a dark mark in its posterior portion similar to 

 that on the dorsal fin. 



Habits.- — Are probably the same as those of the other species of the genus. 

 Parnell found the stomach of his specimen, which measured fourteen inches in 

 length, filled with shrimps and small crabs. 



Breeding. — Parnell's example, captured in June, had the ova almost ready to 

 be deposited. 



