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Dimensions 



Of the Labrador specimen. 



Inches. Lines. Inches. Lines. 



Length from tip of upper jaw to end of caudal 7 4 Length of caudal fin .... 5 



„ tip of tail 7 Depth of body 8 



„ „ anus ... 3 6 



., ,, tip of gill-cover . 1 Of 



.., „ nape ... 7 



„ „ tip of labial 4 



The Kamtschatka " Butter-fish," the Ophidium ocellatum, or Bknniu.s 

 ocellatus of Tilesius {Mem. de St. Peter sb., iii., p. 237, t. 8, f. 2), which has six 

 round spots on the dorsal, is considered by Cuvier to be akin to the Centronoti. 

 It inhabits the harbour of St. Peter and St. Paul. Tilesius alludes to other spe- 

 cies that frequent the sea of Kamtschatka and the vicinity of the Kurile Islands, 

 as having been described by Pallas in his unpublished Fauna Rossica. 



The Pustulated Blenny, noticed by Pennant in the Supplement to his 

 Arctic Zoology, p. 115, as an inhabitant of the sea of Newfoundland, is said to 

 have a pale, dull, yellow colour, with the whole body spotted in form of pustules ; 

 but no character is given by which we can infer that it belongs to any of the pre- 

 ceding sub-genera. 



The Zoarces have no spinous rays whatever ; yet Cuvier thinks that they cannot 

 be separated from the Blennies, which they resemble in having an anal tubercle, 

 intestines without cseca, a smooth oblong body, and six gill-rays. Their ventrals 

 are three-rayed, their teeth conical and arranged in one row on the sides of the 

 jaws, but in several rows in front ; the palate is toothless. Their vertical fins are 

 united, the dorsal being, however, depressed at its junction with the caudal. The 

 Z. viviparus, gufFer, or eelpout of the European seas, is about a foot long. The 

 Z. labrosus (Mitchill, pi. 1, f. 7), which frequents the coast of New York, attains 

 the length of three feet and a half. 



