47 



SOLE. Solea Vulgaris. Jenyns, p. 466. Yarrell's Br. F., 



vol. 2, p. 256. Common. 

 VARIEGATED SOLE. S. Lingula. Jcnyns, p. 468. 



Yarrell's Br. F., vol. 2, p. 262. Scarcely common, but 



constant in its residence. 



This family of Fishes (Pleuronectids?) spawns in Spring, in 

 sandy ground or among stones. 



SUCKING FISHES. 



CORNISH SUCKER. Lcpadogaster Cornubiensis. Jenyns, 



p. 469. Yarrell's Br. F., vol. 2, p. 264. Common. 

 BIMACULATED SUCKER. L. Bimaculatus. Jenyns, p. 

 470. Yarrell's Br. F., vol. 2, p. 268. Less common than 

 the last Species. 

 LUMPFISH. Cycloptcrm Lvmpus. Jenyns, p. 471. Yar- 

 rell's Br. F., vol. 2, p. 270. This Species is chiefly found 

 on our Coasts in Winter, when it comes into shallower 

 water to shed its spawn ; the young however, sometimes not 

 exceeding an inch in length, may occasionally he found 

 through the Summer. The painted Lumpfish, C. Pavoni- 

 nus of Shaw (Jenyns, p. 471) is considered by Naturalists 

 as a variety of this ; but the only Specimen I ever examined 

 differed so remarkably, in having a short distinctly rayed 

 fin at the termination of the adipose dorsal ridge, that if 

 this mark were found in all the Specimens, I should not 

 hesitate to regard it as a seperate Species. 

 CORONATED LUMPFISH. C. Coronatus. Nobis. 



Of this Species, new to the British Fauna if not to Science, 

 I have examined only one Specimen ; the small size of which 

 causes me to suppose that it may have hitherto been over- 

 looked from its likeness to the young of the common Lump- 

 fish. If however, it can be supposed to attain the ordinary 

 bulk of the last named Fish, it must be rare, as the difference 

 is too striking to admit of their being confounded together. 

 The Specimen was about 8 lines in length, with the figure and 

 general proportions of the common Lumpfish : the head 

 square, and along the beginning of the back flat and broad, 

 rising towards the first dorsal fin, and there ridged ; but chan- 

 nelled behind the head. About the centre of gravity, near 

 the summit of the back, is a wide and moderately long fin, 

 the extremity reclining; the second dorsal separated from the 

 first by an interval, and placed opposite the -anal ; both of 

 them wide and rather long, but less so than the first dorsal ; 

 neither of them approaching the tail. Central rays of the 

 caudal fin longest. Sucking disk as in the common Lumpfish, 

 The skin smooth ; and with but little ridge, and no tubercle 

 or adipose substance on the back. Colour a dark green on 

 the back, lighter on the sides, whitish below ; a silvery line 

 across the head uniting the posterior portion of the eyes, and 



