158 
measuring seven and a quarter inches, was three quarters of 
an inch high : branched like a stag’s horn behind and on the 
top. Separate threads on the neck : the first ray of tb 0 
dorsal fin with a branching tuft, the second with a couple of 
shorter fibres. 
In another specimen the tnfts on the head were more 
divaricated ; but in all cases the tendrils pointed backward. 
In most of the specimens the colour was a light brown, with 
a distinct brown line from the base of the anterior supra' 
ocular process, curving round the anterior margin of the eV e > 
and thence descending below the angle of the mouth. At 
the upper margin of the gills the outlet is formed by a 
gathering of the skin into a tube. 
Fin rays, D. 50, 51. P.14,14. A. 35, 39. C. 16, 10' 
V. 3, 2. 
The ventral fins were soft; in one specimen, with thre 0 
soft rays ; in the other, with two palmate rays. 
WOLF FISH. Anarrldchas lupus, Linnaeus. Fleming 9 
Brit. An., p. 208. Jenyns’ Man., p. 384. Yarrell’s B r * 
F., vol. 1, p. 277, N. E. 
This is a fish of the north sea, and not much disposed 
■wander from its usual haunts. When therefore I was irl ' 
formed that a specimen had been taken at Fowey, I f p " 
inclined to doubt its certainty. But I have since 
informed by Mr. J. C. Bellamy, the author of the Natur» l 
History of South Devon, that lie possesed a specimen take® 
in the neighbourhood of Plymouth ; and as the usual fish' 11 ? 
ground of that port, is off the Cornish land, it rende |S 
the report from Fowey more probable, and is in itself soU‘ e 
ground for placing this species in our catalogue. 
POLEWIG. 
FRICKLE GOBY. Gobius minutus. Yarrell’s Br. f’’ 
vol. 1, p. 288, 2nd edition. 
I take this to be the species of Goby, which I have ne' et 
met with on our rocky coast, though it may be not unco 01 ' 
mon at the mouths of our more considerable rivers, ^ 
acquaintance with it is confined to the Looe ; up which r \' e 
it advances with the tide, and again retreats with it. T1 ,0 J 
are less than two inches in length, and of the general f° |( 
of the Gobies; but they arc remarkable in having the e H e . 
on the summit of the head ; under jaw rather promin 0 ’ 1 ‘ 
They are without spots, or those regularly tesselated rnaf ' 
ings so prettily seen in the double spotted Goby ; but l ]° 
represented in Mr. Yarrell’s figure of the latter fish: a cl 
cumstance as regards the last named fish, that may be f ^ 
plained by our specimens frequenting a rocky shore, w ^ lC 
