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SOLE. Solea Vulgaris. Jenyns, p. 466. Yarrell’s Br. F., 
yoI. 2, p. 256. Common. 
VARIEGATED SOLE. S. Lingula. Jenyns, p. 468. 
Yarrell’s Br. F., vol. 2, p. 262. Scarcely common, but 
constant in its residence. 
This family of Fishes (Pleuronectidag) spawns in Spring, in 
sandy ground or among stones. 
SUCKING FISHES. 
CORNISH SUCKER. Lepadogaster Cornubiensis. Jenyns, 
p. 469. Yarrell’s Br. F., vol. 2, p. 264. Common. 
BIMACULATED SUCKER. L. Bimaculatus. Jenyns, p. 
470. Yarrell’s Br. F., vol. 2, p. 268. Less common than 
the last Species. 
LUMPFISH. Cyclopterm Lnmpus. Jenyns, p. 471. Yar- 
rell’s Br. F., vol. 2, p. 270. This Species is chiefly found 
on our Coasts in Winter, when it comes into shallower 
water to shed its spawn ; the young however, sometimes not 
exceeding an inch in length, may occasionally ho found 
through the Summer. The painted Lumpfish, C. Pavoni- 
nus of Shaw (Jenyns, p. 471) is considered by Naturalists 
as a variety of this ; but the only Specimen 1 ever examined 
differed so remarkably, in having a short distinctly rayed 
fin at the termination of the adipose dorsal ridge, that it 
this mark were found in all the Specimens, I should not 
hesitate to regard it ns a seperate Species. 
CORONATED LUMPFISH. C. Cm onaius. Nobis. 
Of this Species, new to the British Fauna if not to Science, 
I have examined only one Specimen ; the small size of which 
causes me to suppose that it may have hitherto been over- 
looked from its likeness to the young of the common Lump- 
fish. If however, it can be supposed to attain the ordinary 
hulk of the last named Fish, it must be rare, as the difference 
is too striking to admit of their being confounded together. 
Flie Specimen was about 8 lines in length, with the figure and 
general proportions of the common Lumpfish : the head 
Sf ptare, and along the beginning of the hack fiat and broad, 
rising towards the first dorsal fin, and there ridged ; hut chan- 
nelled behind the head. About the centre of gravity, near 
die summit of the hack, is a wide and moderately long (in, 
the extremity reclining; the second dorsal separated from the 
first by an interval, and placed opposite the anal ; both ot 
diem wide and rather long, hut less so than the first dorsal; 
neither of them approaching the tail. Central rays of the 
Caudal fin longest. Sucking disk as in the common Lumpfish. 
The skin smo°oth ; and with but little ridge, and no tubercle 
° r adipose substance on the back. Colour a dark green on 
die hack, lighter on the sides, whitish below ; a silvery line 
a °ross the head uniting the posterior portion of the eyes, and 
