PISCES. 
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as the “ young of some better known species.” Nothing hut 
acjuariums can settle these questions for us. 
The Yellow Skulpin. {CalUonymus lyra). The Gemraeous 
dragonet. This very handsome fish is now recognised as the 
adult male, whdst the dusky skulpin or sordid dragonet {C. 
dracunculus) is the adult female or immature young of the 
same fish. It is heavily armed with a jagged spine at the 
lower hack angle of the operculum. Though smaU, its flesh 
is excellent. Not uncommon. 
The Angler. {Lophim pmatorim). The fishing frog. The 
Devil fish. Common. 
Couch abandons the small winged angler and the long angler. 
LABLID^.—(^^ Wrasses). 
(Pronounced, in the singular, Eaa). I follow Mr. Couch (^e 
“Fauna”) in giving the Wrasses with great reservation. ^ He 
speaks of the confusion from which they were only “ emerging 
when he wrote in 1838, but I, having had unusual opportunities 
of examining the family, (having, for several years for a holiday 
month outright, caught never less than a dozen a day, of all sorts 
of wrasse) am at present inclined to a belief that the Labrid® 
me not of so many species as the books say, and that the con- 
fusion which Mr. Couch noticed in 1838 is by no means at an 
ond. 
Fallan Wrasse. {Lahrm maewlatus). The “Johnraa” of the 
country people. Very common. With this one, must go, in 
my opinion, the greenstreaked wrasse {L. lineatus) as its 
female or immature young. Couch (Fauna) apparently at 
one time favoured this view, although he retains the green 
wrasse in his larger work. ... , . , . 
Tfie Comber. ( L. Comber). This wrasse is rare if it is a distinct 
species, but I incline to think it an accidental variation of 
the young Ballan wrasse. 
The Blue striped wrasse. {L. coquus). Male ; takes with it as 
its female the three-spotted wrasse (X. trimaculatus), and to- 
gether are a beautiful pair of fish, and not at all uncommon. 
The Scalerayed Wrasse {AcantMabrm CoucUi) is admitted by 
YarreU and by Couch, but is so rare, and its peculiarity of 
being scale-rayed is so un-English, that I am unwilling to 
rank it as a Cornish wrasse, although it may well be a scale- 
