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ber : the fifth species, having an uninterrupted dorsal fin, a 

 more elongated slender body, short ventral fins, and longer 

 anal fin, exhibits in these various particulars so many rela- 

 tions to the characters of the genus next in succession, and is 

 therefore placed last. 



The fishes of this genus are of little value : they swim 

 in small shoals, feeding on minute crustaceous animals, 

 and some of them are remarkably tenacious of life. They 

 are most frequently found, left by the retiring tide, in 

 small pools on the rocky parts of the coast, are active 

 and vigilant, hiding themselves in small crevices or under 

 sea-weed, and remaining concealed till the return of the 



tide. 



The example of Dr. Fleming has been followed in con- 

 sidering this Blenny, described by Colonel Montagu in 

 the Wernerian Memoirs before referred to under the term 

 galerita, as distinct from the galerita of Linnaeus: the 

 uniformity in the boundary line of the dorsal fin in the 

 true galerita and the interrupted line in the fish figured and 

 described by Montagu, being one of the most obvious cha- 

 racters for distinction. The number of the rays in the dorsal 

 and anal fins in B. Montagui are only as thirty to fifty- 

 one in the dorsal, and eighteen to thirty-six in the anal, as 

 compared with the galerita of Linneeus. 



The account here given is derived from Colonel Montagu, 

 and the figure is from a drawing by Mr. Couch, who in his 

 MS. briefly refers to this fish as occurring in Cornwall, and 

 as being very active and difficult to catch. 



" Body rather more slender than that of the Smooth 

 Blenny. Head much sloped; eyes high up, approximat- 

 ing, gilded ; the upper lip furnished with a bony plate 

 that projects at the angles of the mouth into a thin lamina 

 that turns downwards, the ends of which arc orange-co- 



