PLATE. LXXVIil. 
This species of Sucker is of a smali, or rather diminutive size, but 
will not be considered uninteresting cither in point of beauty or 
rarity. Whether it has ever been discovered on any other than the 
British coasts, admits of doubt ; a variety of circumstances incline 
us to believe it has certainly not. Among the continental naturalists* * 
it appears to be noticed only by those of France ; and we may infer, 
from the tenor of their observations, that they are indebted to our 
countryman Pennant for every particular respecting it*. The 
species escaped the researches of the indefatigable Bloch, and it is also 
omitted in the Gmehnimi edition of* the Systems hJsturse# 
The first account given of this Cyclopterus is to be found in the 
Appendix of Pennant’s British Zoology ; who informs the reader, 
her Grace the Duchess Dowager of Portland did him the honour 
of communicating it. He describes it as having “ the head flat and 
tumid on each side : the body taper : the pectoral fins placed un- 
usually high. It has only one dorsal fin ; placed low, or near the 
tail. The tail is even at the end. The colour of the head and body 
is of a fine pink : of the fins, whitish. On each side of the engine 
of adherence on the belly, is a round black spot. Found neat 
Weymouth.” — It may not be improper to add, that the specify 
character assigned to the bimaculated Sucker, by Dr. Turton f, and 
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* “ Le Cijdoptire UmacuU a les nageoires pectorales situtes vers le derriere d e 
lite, et une tache noire sur cbatpie c6t£ du corps. II vit dans les mers d’Angleten e 
Base, $c. 
t « Cyclopterus bimaeulatus, Bimaculated Sucker. Head flat, tumid each .side, t8 P 6f 
mg to a point; pectoral fins placed new the nape; &c." Turt. Trans, Lijin, Sy*t. 
