PLATE LXXVIII. 
the general account by Dr. Shaw *, accord in every respect, except 
* slight variation of language, with the above description. 
A far more copious and satisfactory account of this elegant species 
*Ppeared last year, in a paper written by G. Montagu, Esq., of 
Knowle, in Devonshire, and inserted in the seventh volume of the 
Transactions of the Linnasan Society. Mr. Montagu informs us, 
he has frequently taken this species, by deep dredging, at Torcross, 
tn Devonshire, adhering to stones and old shells, and has kept several 
*hve for a day or two, in a glass of sea water. The first specimen 
this fish we possessed, was taken on that coast by Mr. Montagu, 
an d communicated to us in spirits, with an accurate description of 
lts appearance while living. We have since found one specimen 
it ourselves, affixed by its sucker to the shell of an oyster, in 
•hedging on the coast of Kent, near the Nore. 
it appears, both from the observations of Mr. Montagu, who 
^ as had frequent opportunities of examining this fish, and from the 
Solitary individual we have found, that Mr. Pennant was mistaken 
as to one very striking and, indeed, decisive character of this spe- 
c ‘ Cs : the black abdominal spots, as he terms them, but which, in 
t i* e recent fish, are purple ; those purple spots are encircled with a 
r ' air ow ring of white, which contributes much to the elegance of 
fish, and forms a striking characteristic of the species. 
tydopterus Bimaculatus. C* roseus, macula utrin'-ju© ventrali nigra, Sec-” Shaw. 
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Z*ol. v. s. r . 2 . p. 398. 
