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CONNEMARA SUCKER. 
that the species he has inet with in Ireland is the same that 
will be here described. In the collection of Dr Ball, of 
Dublin, there is an apparently undescribed species of Lepado- 
qdsteT^ which was talcen in Boundstone Bay, Connemara, on 
the western coast of Ireland. From the two British species 
already known, L. himaculatus and L. Cornubiensis , this iish is 
very different. It cannot be that alluded to in his paper on 
the fishes of Cornwall, by Mr. Couch, (‘Lin. Trans.,’ vol. xiv, 
p. 470,; as allied to the latter, nor can it be mistaken by any 
Ichthyologist for the L. Cornubiensis, which has been described 
so differently by authors, as to have led Mr. Jenyns to 
remark in reference to it, that ‘possibly we may have two 
species in our seas which have been hitherto confounded. A 
critical comparison shews that the fish under consideration 
agrees not with any of the eleven or twelve (?) species 
described by Risso as inhabiting the Mediterranean. Of these 
the L. biciliatus is considered by Mr. Yarrell to be the same 
as the L. Cornubiensis. Although in the depressed form of 
the head this fish resem.bles more the minute species, L. 
himaculatus than the L. Cornubiensis, yet its equalling the 
latter in size, and having with it the dorsal and anal fins 
occupying a considerable portion of its length, renders it only 
necessary to be compared with this species. In general form 
it differs much from L. Cornubiensis. Though narrower in the 
snout, it is of greater breadth across the posterior part of 
the head; it is also much more depressed in the anterior 
half, and narrower suddenly behind the ventral disk, being to 
the tail compressed and tapering. In L. Cornubiensis the body 
slopes gradually from the head posteriorly.” 
It is probable that this fish is limited to particular districts, 
and the few examples that have fallen into ray hands have 
only been obtained at very low tides, under a stone, or in 
shallow water. 
The length of the examples selected for description was two 
inches and a half, and the general shape much like that of 
the Doubly-spotted Sucker; and from this it is immediately 
distinguished by the much longer dorsal and anal fins, the 
former of which begins nearer the head, and both approach 
close to the tail. From the Cornish Sucker it is distinguished 
by the difference of proportions, particularly of the head and 
