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We distinguish from these Blennies, properly so termed, by the 

 name of 



Myxodes, Cuv. 



Species with an elongated head, a pointed muzzle projecting in 

 front of the mouth, and a single range of teeth, as in the Blennies, 

 but without caninesj(l) and by that of 



Salarias, Cuv. 



Species whose teeth, also forming a single range and placed close 

 to each other, are compressed laterally, hooked at the end, inex- 

 pressibly slender, and immensely numerous. They move, in the re- 

 cent specimen, like the keys of a harpsichord. Their head, strongly 

 compressed above, is very broad belowj their lips are thick and 

 fleshy, their profile is completely vertical, and their spirally convo- 

 luted intestines are longer and thinner than in the Common Blenny. 

 The only species known are from the Indian Ocean.(2) We call 



Clinus, Cuv.(3) 



Those with short pointed teeth, scattered in several ranges, the 

 first of which is the largest. Their muzzle is less obtuse than in 

 the two preceding subgenera, their stomach wider and their intes- 

 tines shorter. 



In some, the first rays of the dorsal form a point separated by an 

 emargination from the rest of the fin,'(4) small fimbriated appen- 

 dages 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 ver- 

 tex.(5) 



In others again, the dorsal is continuous and even. (6) 



(1) The species are new. 



(2) Sal. quadripinnis, Cuv., which is the Blennius gaiiorugine, Forsk., p. 23; 

 Bl. simus, Sitjef. Act. Petrop. 1779, part II, pi. vi; the kittens, or Saltator of 

 Commers., Lacep., II, p. 479, and several new species. I have every reason to 

 believe that to this subgenus we should also refer the BL edenttilus, Bl., Schn., or 

 the truncatus of Forster, notwithstanding it is said to be without teeth. 



(3) Clinus, the modern Greek term for the Blenny. 



(4) Bl. mustelaris, L, Mus. Ad. Fred, xxxi, 3; Bl. superciliosus, Bl. 168; Bl. 

 argoiteus, Risso. N.B. The Blennie pointille, Lac^p. II, xii, 3, appears to me to 

 be a badly preserved specimen of the superciliosus. 



(5) BL fenestratus, Forst.,Bl, Schn., p. 173. 



(6) Bl. spadiceus, Schn., Seb. Ill, xxx, f. 8; BL acuminatus. Id , Seb., lb. 1; 

 J5/. pundatus, Ott, Fabr., Soc. Hist. Nat. Copenh. vol. II, fasc. II, pi. x, f. 3; 



