Class IV. G A T T O R U G I N. 207 



can erect or deprefs at pleafure. On the top of the 

 head, between the eyes, is a triangular lump point- 

 ing backwards, and red about its edges. 



The fkin at the corner of the upper jaw is loofe, 

 and projects. 



From the hind part of the head, almoft to the 

 tail, extends the dorfal fin : the ventral fin is fmall : 

 the vent is placed under the ends of the pectoral 

 fins. 



The body is fmooth and flippery : the color 

 brown, and fpotted. 



Scorpioides. Rondel. 204. oculos, pinna ani officulo- 91. Gatto- 



Gefner pifc. 847. rum viginti trium. Arted. rugin. 



Gattorugine Venetiis. Wil. fynon. 44. 



Icth. 132. Raii fyn. pifc. 72. Blennius Gattorugine. Lin. 



Blennius pinnulis duabus ad fyjl. 442. 



THIS curious kind was difcovered to be a Bri- Place, 

 tijh fifh on the Anglefea coaft. 



Its length was feven inches and an half: the body Descrif. 

 was fmooth, and comprefTed on the fides : the belly 

 a little prominent : the vent fituated as in the pre- 

 ceding fifh. 



The teeth (lender, almoft fetaceous, and very 

 clofe fet : between the eyes was a fmall hollow, and 

 above each, juft on the fummit, was a narrow 

 loofe membrane, trifurcated at the top, which dif- 



tinguifhes this from all other fpecies. 



The 



