Zoological Society. 395 



ferred correctly to either of these states of the species, I feel autho- 

 rized, after examination of perhaps some hundred individuals of this 

 common little fish, with a particular view towards the confirmation 

 of the form in question as a species, to pronounce it a mere trivial 

 and accidental aberration (so far at least as concerns the Madeiran 

 individual alluded to by MM. Cuvier and Valenciennes) of the typical 

 common state (var. a) of Bl. palmicornis . 



Pholis trigloides. 



Pholis Icevis, Syn. 185 ; Suppl. in Proceed. 1839, p. 83 ; in Trans. 

 iii. 9. 



This fish proves to be distinct specifically from the British P. 

 Icevis, FL, of which I had considered it at first a mere variety. This 

 correction has been recently confirmed, on a comparison of speci- 

 mens, by my friend Mr. Jenyns, who finds the eyes in the Madeiran 

 fish " more than twice the size of those of P. Icevis, FL, not to men- 

 tion other differences." I am also so far satisfied as anything short 

 of an inspection of their specimens can warrant, that Bl. trigloides 

 of MM. Cuvier and Valenciennes, which even by their own show- 

 ing* is misplaced in their genus Blennius, is founded, at least in 

 partf, on an example of this species, for which I therefore now pro- 

 pose the name of Pholis trigloides, it being a genuine member of the 

 genus Pholis of Fleming. 



Pholis Bufo. P. fusco-nigrescens, versicolor, mox pallide cervina, 

 nigro maculata et punctata, magna, pigra : pinnis pectoralibus 

 nigro maculatis, maculis transverse fasciatis : capite magno, 

 crasso, obtuso ; oculis nee magnis, nee extantibus, intervallo occi- 

 pitali lato subsulcato : dentibus anticis abrupte et longissime pro- 

 ductis, arcuato-incurvis. 



D.12 4- 19 V. 18; A. 20 V. 21; P. 13; V.3; q 2 + I- + V. M.R.fi. 



2 + I. + IV. 



This ugly, heavy-looking fish attains the length of ten or twelve 

 inches, and is at present certainly the giant of its genus, and even of 

 the true Blennies. It is very rare, or rather local, and confined ap- 

 parently to beaches covered with large rounded rocks or stones, 

 amidst M^hich a little fresh water finds its way into the sea. 1 have 

 had from ten to twenty individuals, from two inches and a half in 

 length upwards, all exhibiting the same characters. 



Fam. Lab RID JE. 

 Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 84, Erratum. The two lowest para- 

 graphs at the bottom of this page belong to the head " Acantholabrus 

 imbricatus ;" the specific character and fin-formula of which have 

 been transposed, by an error in the printing, from their proper place 

 immediately before the first of these two paragraphs, beginning 

 •• Crenilabrus luscus," to p. 86, where they will be found forming ia 

 Italics the second paragraph from the top. 



* " II n'y a point de tentacule au sourcil." Cuv. et Val. xi. 228. 

 t See Siippl. in Proceed., p. 83 ; Trans, iii. p. 9. 



