Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

12 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY
BLENNIUS GATTORUGINE, Block.
GUNTHER, "Catalogue of Fishes," vol. iii. p. 213 (1861).
According to Dr. Giinther there
(/.c.), are five adult mounted
examples of the Gattoruginous Blenny in the British Museum
collection from the Firth of Forth.
This is
yet another species about which it is most desirable we
should have further information. It is said to have been captured
on two occasions at Banff by Edward.
CARELOPHUS ASCANII ( Walbaum}.
FULTON, "Rep. Fish. Board Scot.," 1889, part. iii. p. 357 (1890);
EAGLE CLARKE, "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1895,0. 24.
Dr. Wemyss Fulton records an (I.e.] example of Yarrell's Blenny,
5.5 inches long, which was caught on a baited line two miles off the
mouth of the Tyne on the 131!! of September 1889.
A specimen 7.5 inches long was brought to me on the gth of
August 1894. It had just been captured off Craigleith on rocky
ground in 10 fathoms, and had taken a hook baited with mussel.
Mr. Evans tells me that he took one from a rock-pool at North
Berwick in January 1896.
Professor M'Intosh ("Marine Fauna of St. Andrews," p. 175) says
it is not uncommon in deep water, and occasionally in the stomach
of the Cod.
LUMPENUS LAMPETRIFORMIS ( Walbaum).
DAY, "Proc. Zool. Soc.," 1884, pp. 445-447, pi. xli., and "Rep.
Fish. Board Scot.," 1883, App., p. 78, pi.
x.
(1884); SCOTT, op. cif.
1888, part iii. p. 326 (1889); FULTON, op. at. 1889, part iii. p.
357 (1890); M'INTOSH, op. at. 1893, part iii. pp. 225-227, pi. iii.
fig. 2 (1894); EAGLE CLARKE, "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1895, pp. 25,
26.
This Blenny was described as new to the British fauna by Dr.
Day from a (I.e.], specimen captured 15 miles off St. Abb's Head
in May 1884. It was taken in a trawl in 40 fathoms of water,
and was sent to him by Professor MTntosh.
In 1887 Mr. Scott (/.