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Appendices to Second Annual Report 



APPENDIX F. — No. VI. 



Note on a new Blenny (Lumpenus lampretceformis). Plate X 

 By Francis Day, F.Z.S. 



Blennias capite Icevi, &c., Mohr, Isl. Nat. p. 84, t. iv. (1786). 



„ lampretoeformis, Walb. Artedi. Gen. Pise, p. 184, pi. iii., f. 6 

 (from Mohr), (1792). 

 Centronotus islandicus, Bloch, Schn. Syst. Ich., p. 167 (1801). 

 Blennius lumpenus, pt. Faber, Fische. Isl., p. 79 (1829). 

 Centronotus lumpenus, Nilss. Prod. Ich. Scand., p. 104 (1832), 

 Clinus nebulosus, Fries, Kgl. Vet. Ak. Hand., 1837, p. 49 (1837). 



mohrii, Kr. Nat, Tids., i. P., i. B., 1837, p. 32 (1837). 

 Blennius gracilis, Stuwitz, Nyt. Mag. f. Nat., i. B., p. 406 (1838). 

 Lumpenus (Clinus) gracilis, Reinh. Kgl, D. Vid. Selsh. Nat. Math. 

 Aph, 7 Del., p. 194 (1838). 

 „ nebulosus, Nilss. Skand. Fauna, u. Del. p. 195 (1855). 

 Stichceus islandicus, Gunther, Catal. Fish. Brit. Mus., iii. p. 281 (1861). 

 Centroblennius nebulosus, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1861, Aphen., 

 p. 45 (1861). 



Lumpenus gracilis, Kr. Nat Tids., 3 R, 1 B., p. 282, Kbhvn. 1861-63 

 (1862). 



„ lampetrmformis, Collett, Norges. Fishe. Till. til. Fork. Vid. 

 Selsk. Chra., 1874, p. 71 (1874), and Norw. North AtL 

 Esh., 1876-78 (1880). B. vi., D. 72, P. 14, V. 5, A. 52, 

 C. 13, Coec. pyl. 2. 



Professor M'Intosh obtained this example, which is 10 -7 inches in 

 length, from a trawler which captured it in 40 fathoms of water 15 miles 

 off St Abb's Head. It was first figured and described by Mohr in 1786, 

 and had the specific term, lampretceformis, first bestowed on it by 

 Walbaum in 1792. Schneider, however, in his edition of Bloch's 

 Iclithyologia, alters this specific term to islandicus, and several other 

 synonyms have been subsequently added. Gunther refers to i Blennius 

 ( islandicus, Walb. Art. Renov.,iii. t. 3, f. 6,' which does not exist in my copy. 



The specimen does not differ from the recorded descriptions, except in 

 having one of the rays on either side of the caudal fin elongated, which I 

 take to be a sexual character, as the specimen is a male, with the organs 

 of generation well developed. 



This fish, as observed by Collett, occurs on the coast of Greenland, Ice- 

 land, Spitsbergen, and the shores of north-western Europe as far south 

 as the Cattegat ; while to the north it extends at least to 80°. This 

 specimen appears to be the first recorded from the shores of the British 

 Isles. 



