232 ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGI1. 



their stomach wider, and their intestines shorter. 

 Cl'mus is the modern Greek name for the blenny. 



In some the first rays of the dorsal form a point 

 separated by an emargination from the rest of the 

 fin; small fringed appendages (panaches) on the eye- 

 brows \ 



There are even some of them in which the first rays 

 are altogether forward, and seem to form a pointed 

 and radiated crest on the vertex 2 . 



In others again the dorsal is continuous and even 3 . 



ClRRHIBARBA, CuV. 



The form of a clinus ; teeth small and crowded, and 

 besides a little tentaculum over the eye, and one in 

 the nostril, there are three large ones at the end of 

 the muzzle, and eight under the point of the lower 

 jaw. 



But one species is known, from India, of a uniform 

 fawn-colour. 



MuRvEnoides, Lacep. Centronotus, Schn. 

 The ventrals smaller than in any of the other blennies, 



1 BL mustelaris, L., Mus. Ad. Fred. xxxi. 3. BL superciliosus, 

 Bl. 168. BL argenleus, Risso. 



N.B. The Blennie pointille, Lacep. II. xii. 3., appears to me to 

 be a badly preserved specimen of the siqierciliosus. 



2 Bl.fenestratus, Forst., Bl. Schn. p. 173. 



1 Bl. spadiccus, Schn., Seb. III. xxx. f. 8. Bl. acuminatus, id., 

 Seb. ib. 1. Bl. punctatus, Ott. Fabr. Soc. Hist. Nat. Copenh. vol. 

 ii. fasc. ii. pi. x. f. 3. BL Audifredt, Risso, pi. vi. f. 15. Bl. ca- 

 pensis, Forster, Bl. Schn. 1 75. Bl. lumpenas, Walb. Arted. Renov. 

 part iii. pi. iii. 



