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Color (in spirits) reddish-brown above, white and yellowish- white 

 below ; a dark area on lower part of cheek and opercle ; a small 

 dark spot above, and one or two behind axil of pectoral ; irregular 

 dark spots on pectoral, lower rays tipped with white ; spinous dor- 

 sal slightly darkened, a few dark spots on soft dorsal. Caudal fan- 

 shaped, almost immaculate at base, but with large, dark spots be- 

 tween the rays disposed in two or three transverse bars, in the cen- 

 tral region of fin, and irregularly near its extremity. Anal white 

 with a few dark spots ; ventrals white with one or two spots. One 

 specimen 13.5 cm. long from Canary Islands, collected by O. F. 

 Cook. 



This species seems to be distinct from the Madeira species Scor- 

 pcena ustulate Lowe, to which it is allied. 



Family GOBIIDJE. 



45. Gobius niger Linnaeus. 

 One specimen. 



Family TRACHINIDJE. 



46. Trachinus draco Linrnvus. 

 Three specimens. 



Family BLENNIIDJE. 



47. Labrisomus nucbipinnis (Quoy & Gaimard). 



In the two specimens of this species the band of villiform teeth is 

 broader behind the upper front teeth than that behind the lower. 



48. Blennius oanariensis Jordan & Gunn, new species. 



Head 4| ; depth 4£ ; eye in head 4£, in inter-orbital width |. D. 

 XI-22 ; A. 11-22 ; snout rounded, obtuse, 3 in head. Two canine 

 teeth in each jaw, the lower ones twice as large as the upper, incis- 

 ors long, villiform, in single series in each jaw, not fixed. Dorsal 

 beginning above margin of preopercle, continuous, extending to 

 caudal but not uniting with it. Ventrals inserted below origin of 

 dorsal, 7| in body-length. Distance of anal from caudal equals di- 

 ameter of eye. Supraorbital cirrus bifid, as long as half diameter 

 of eye ; anterior nostril with a flap equalling one-third diameter of 

 eye. Caudal fan-shaped. 



Body color (in spirits) reddish-brown, whitish below ; posterior 

 half of body sometimes whitish, in which case, three longitudinal 

 interrupted brown stripes extend over the light part. Ventrals and 

 pectorals reddish-brown ; vertical fins darker ; anal dark violet, the 



