384 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Uranoscopid^;. 



Uranoscopus scaler, a Mediterranean fish. The upper and 

 lower pharyngeal teeth are cardiform. The upper ones are in a 

 circular patch, from which a few project very visibly ; the 

 remainder are embedded in mucous membrane, with the points 

 showing. In the lower pharyngeal teeth, those near the middle 

 of the mouth are more distinct along the middle line ; the 

 others are smaller, but a finger drawn against them gives a 

 notion of the grip they would take of any food in the act of 

 swallowing. 



CALLIONYMID.E. 



Callionymus lyra (the Skulpin, also Dragonet), has short, 

 smooth, soft gill-rakers on each side of its branchial arches. 

 The upper pharyngeal teeth are set on two round shields ; the 

 uppermost one attached to the head of the second epibranchial 

 arch can be easily moved, showing their separate condition. 

 The pharyngeal teeth are cardiform and rather sparsely sown 

 over the upper and lower pharyngeal bones on which they are 

 set. Crustaceans form a part of the diet of this fish ; a sand- 

 hopper, one of the Amphipoda, was taken out of the gullet of 

 the specimen examined. 



Blennhxe, 



Blennius gattorugine, the " Gattorugine," Couch, who also 

 says it is known as " Tompot " by fishermen in the West of 

 England. It has seven stunted horny gill-rakers on the first 

 cerato-hypobranchial. The other arches have them on the 

 inside and outside, but distantly placed from each other, so that 

 the filter made is not a very good one. The upper pharyngeal 

 teeth, which are cardiform, are set in two curved rows on each 

 side attached to the upper part of the third and fourth epi- 

 branchials. The lower pharyngeal teeth are in a row, each side 

 forming a V, with its apex directed forward. 



Blennius ocellaris (the Butterfly Blenny) has nine soft gill- 

 rakers on the cerato-hypobranchial of the first arch that have 

 fine bristles at the extremities of several of them ; there are two 

 gill-rakers on the epibranchial. The gill-rakers of the other 

 arches are tubercles. The upper pharyngeal teeth arranged in 

 one patch on each side, the upper portion of which has cardiform 

 teeth placed in a curved row and standing up distinctly. The 



