YARRELL 1 * BLENNY. 263 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. GOBIADM. 



YARRELL'S BLENNY. 



litennius Yarreltii, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. xi. p. 218. 



,, palmicornis, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 237. 



,, galerita, STROM. LINNAEUS. GMELIN. 



,, ,, Crested Btenny, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 276, pi. 39. 



,, ,, ,, ,, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 207, sp. 122. 



,, ,, NILSSON, Ichth. Scand. p. 102. 



,, palmicornis, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 380. 



THE BLENNY figured above appears by the recently pub- 

 lished observations of M. Valenciennes to be neither the 

 B. palmicornis of Cuvier, nor the true B. galerita of Lin- 

 naeus ; and to obviate the inconvenience which has arisen from 

 the various synonymes with which it has been hitherto asso- 

 ciated, M. Valenciennes has done me the honour to propose 

 that in future it should be called Blennius Yarrdlii. 



I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. George Johnston, 

 of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the only specimen of this fish 

 I had ever seen at the time of its publication. It proved to 

 be a valuable acquisition, by affording an opportunity of 

 giving a detailed description of the species, which, from the 

 evidence to be quoted, I am induced to believe to have 

 been first confounded by Strom, and afterwards by Lin- 



