212 BLENNIID^. 



without detached portion ; ventrals jugular, formed by a spine and 

 two rays. Cleft of the mouth narrow ; a single series of immove- 

 able teeth in the jaws, generally a curved tooth behind this series in 

 both jaws or in the lower. Tentacle above the orbit more or less 

 developed, sometimes absent. GiU-opening wide. Branchiostegals 

 six ; pseudobranchiae present ; air-bladder and pyloric appendages 

 none. 



Coasts of Eiu'ope. Freshwater lakes of Italy. Shores of the At- 

 lantic. Eed Sea. Sandwich Islands. Van Diemen's Land. 



1. Blennius gattorugine. 



Gattorugine, WiUughby, p. 132. tab. H. 2. fig. 2 ; Rmj, p. 72 ; ?Penn. 



Brit. Zool. iii. p. 181. pi. 35. n. 91. 

 Blennius, sp. n. 2, Artedi, Genera, p. 2G ; ? Klein, Pise. Miss. v. p. 32. 



tab. 7. fig. 1. 

 ? Blennius gattorugine, Bl. taf. 167. fig. 2 ; Bl. Schn. p. 168. 

 Blennius gattorugine, Briinn. Pise. Mass. p. 27 ; Donov. Brit. Fishes, 



iv. pi. 86 ; Laeep. ii. p. 468 ; 3Iartens, Beise nach Venedig, ii. p. 418 ; 



Risso, Ichtli. Nice, p. 127, <aud Eur. Merid. iii. p. 230 ; Cuv. ^ Val. 



xi. p. 200 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, 2nd edit. i. p. 256 ; Guichen. Explor. 



Alger. Poiss. p. 69 ; Loice in Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 9. 

 varus, Pail. Zoogr. Ross. iii. p. 170; Nordm. in Demid. Voy. 



Ritss. Merid. iii. p. 402 (not Risso). 



B- 6- ^- T^'2o- ^- 21-22. Vert. 12/27. 

 The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is four 

 times and a half to five times in the total. Snout obtiise, with the 

 upper profile abruptly descending. No 'curved tooth in the upper jaw, 

 and a very small one in the lower. Orbital tentacle well developed ; 

 the interorbital space is concave, and its width is less than the vertical 

 diameter of the eye : a transverse groove behind the tentacles. The 

 dorsal fin commences in the vertical from the praeopercular margin 

 and has stiff spines, which are a little flexible at the top ; a shallow 



3. Blennius frater, Asso. Introd. Oryctogr. Array, p. 95. tab. 6. fig. 2 ; Bl. 



Schn. p. 171 ; Cuv. 4' Val. xi. p. 252; Martens in Wieym. Arch, xxiii. 

 p. 176. — River Po. 



4. goreensis, Cuv. Sf Val. xi. p. 255. — Coast of Gorea. 



5. oceanicus, Cuv. 4' Val. xi. p. 265. — Atlantic. 



6. multifilis, Girard in Proc. Acad. Nat. 8c. Philad. 1858, p. 169.— St. 



Joseph's Island, Texas. 



7. PhoUs caroUnus, Cuv. ^ Val. xi. p. 276. — Carolina. 



8. parvideiis, Cuv. if Val. xi. p. 277. — Hub. ? 



9. Blennius tentacularis, Eisso, lehfhyol. Nice, p. 130, and Eur. Merid. iii. 



p. 230. — Mediterranean. 



10. cornu cervi, Bisso, Eur. Merid. iii. p. 231. — Mediterranean. 



11. stellatus, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii. p. 233, and lehfhyol. Nice, p. 134. 



— Mediterranean. 



12. ■ galerita, Risso, Ichthyol. Nice, p. 132, and Eur. Mirid. iii. p. 235. — 



Mediterranean (not aucf.). 



13. ■ Hneatus, Guichen. Explor. Alyer. Poiss. p. 73. pi. 4. fig. 2. — Coast 



of Algiers. 

 14. hentzii, Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. iv. p.363. — Charleston. 



15. (?) aurosplendidus, Bichards. Ichthyol. China, p. 265. — Macao. 



16. (?) fasciolatoceps, Bichards. Ichthyol. China, p. 265. — Macao. 



