114. BLENXIID/E BLENNIUS. 
759 
1158. II. geminatus (Wood) J. & G. 
Olive browu, faintly barred with darker; sides plain (in our speci- 
mens), or with “several pairs of spots of a reddish-brown color, ar- 
ranged pretty regularly in a double row” {Wood)-, vertical fins edged 
with darker, especially the anal; dorsal black in front. Head not very 
blunt, the anterior profile straight, oblique; orbital cirrus not large, 
shorter than eye, branched at tip; interorbital space concave, not half 
diameter of eye; a slight transverse groove behind ej-e; canines in both 
jaws very strong, hooked backwards, the lower considerably stronger 
than upper; gill-openings extending downward to opposite or slightly 
below lower edge of pectoral. Dorsal fin not emargiuate, the spines 
slender, but rather stilf, lower than the soft rays; pectorals shortish, 
ventrals rather long. Head 3 ^ ; depth 4. D. XI, 15 ; A. 18. L. 2 J 
inches. South Atlantic coast of the United States; abundant in empty 
shells and clusters of tuuicates. 
{Blennim geminatm Wood, doom. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. iv, 278, 1824: ^Blennius 
geminatus Giiutlier, iii, 223.) 
405.— BLEHIVIUS Linnajus. 
Blennies. 
(Artedi; Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. : type Blenniiis ocellaris L.) 
Body oblong, compressed, naked; head short, the profile usually 
bluntly rounded; mouth small, horizontal, with a single series of long, 
slender, curved, close-set teeth in each jaw, besides which, in the lower 
jaw at least, is a fang-like canine tooth on each side; premaxillaries not 
protractile; gill-openings wide, extending forward below, the mem- 
branes free from the isthmus, or at least forming a fold across it. Dor- 
sal fin entire, or more or less emarginate, usually free from caudal, the 
spines slender; pectorals moderate; ventrals well developed, 1, 3; no 
pyloric coeca; lateral line developed anteriorly. Species very numer- 
ous, lurking under rocks and algm in all warm seas; some species in 
the lakes of Xorthern Italy. [Blennius, the ancient name, from 
slime.) 
a. Orbital cirri present. (Blennius.) 
i. Botlijaws with canine teeth, 
c. Dorsal little emargiuate. 
1 159. B. fMCorum Cuv". & Val. 
Olive green, becoming darker above, with numerous brown spots 
on the cheeks and sides of the body; below fiiintly reddish. Orbital 
