1888 .] 
Dr Gunther on Bmjp- Water Fishes. 
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Triglops murropi^ sp. n. 
(PI. IV. fig. A.) 
D. 10|19. A. 19. P.17-18. V. 3. C. 17. 
Head hut little compressed, its length being contained thrice or 
thrice and one-third in the total length, without caudal. Eye one- 
third, and in large specimens somewhat less than one-third, of the 
length of the head. Interorhital space very narrow and but 
slightly concave. Maxillary not extending to below the middle 
of the eye ; prseoperculum with four very small and obtuse promi- 
nences on the hind margin. The head and the back are covered 
with shagreen-like skin, but below the lateral line the integuments 
form oblique folds as in Triglops pingelii; also the series of larger 
tubercles, which in that species runs close to the base of the dorsal 
fins, is present in our species. Thorax, in front of the ventrals, 
covered with transverse folds of the skin. Structure and proportions 
of the fins as in T. pingelii. Anal papilla long. Whitish, clouded 
with darker, dorsal and caudal fins with black spots. 
Although this species is closely allied to T. pingelii, it may be 
readily distinguished, not merely by the less number of fin rays, but 
also by the different form of the bead, size of the eye, and more 
compressed tail, which in T. pingelii is singularly depressed. 
Several specimens, from to 4 inches long, were obtained in the 
Mull of Cantyre, at a depth of 64 fathoms, in the months of Feb- 
ruary and March, and 4 miles south-east of the island of Sanda, in 
35 fathoms, in the middle of March. 
Agonus catapJiradus. Poggy ; Lyrie. 
Five specimens from the Mull of Cantyre, 49 and 64 fathoms. 
February. 
Two specimens from Kilbrennan Sound, 10 to 20 fathoms, 
Miirch. 
Trigla gurnardus. Gurnard. 
Two half-grown specimens from Lamlash Bay, in 6 to 8 fathoms. 
April. 
Three half-grown specimens, and one 2 inches long, from Kil- 
brennan Sound, in 26 fathoms. December. 
