1888.] Y)v OuniYier on Deep-Water Fishes. 211 
and the upper of a deep black ; a series of round white spots, one 
corresponding to each interradial space, occupying the boundary line 
between the black and grey divisions of the fin. 
Gallionymus lyra. Common Dragonet. 
Two adult specimens from Ardrossan (10 to 15 fathoms) and 
from the Firth of Clyde (20 fathoms). April. 
Several specimens, from 30 to 40 fathoms, south-east of Island of 
Sanda. Contents of stomach, tubicolous worms. 
Adult male and female from Kilbrennan Sound (26 fathoms). 
December. 
Gallionymus maculatus. Spotted Dragonet. 
The occurrence of this dragonet within the limits of the British 
fauna has been made known by me as far back as the year 1867, 
in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xx. p. 289, “where also an adult 
male specimen is figured on pi. v. fig. A. The three specimens 
then known to me, and placed by me in the British Museum, 
came from the neighbourhood of the Hebrides, from a depth of from 
80 to 90 fathoms. Mr Murray has now rediscovered this beautiful 
species in Kilbrennan Sound, where it seems to be rather abundant, 
at a depth of 26 fathoms. The largest male specimen measures 
4J inches. Other specimens were obtained in the Sound of Sanda, 
24 to 28 fathoms. 
Ligoaris ligjaris. Sucker. 
Many specimens, from 49 and 64 fathoms, in the Mull of Cantyre. 
February and March. 
Three specimens, from 30 to 40 fathoms, between Cumbrae and 
Wemyss Point. February. 
Sticliaeus lampetraeformis. 
Discovered by Mr Sim off Aberdeen. This species proves to occur 
also on the West Coast of Scotland, three adult specimens having 
been found between Cumbrae and Skelmorlie Light, in 20 fathoms, 
in April, and at Cumbrae Lighthouse, in 60 fathoms, in February. 
Gentronotus gunellus. Butterfish. 
One specimen, at the Cloch Lighthouse, in 43 fathoms. August. 
One specimen, in Kilbrennan Sound, in 20 fathoms. March. 
