3. BLENNItJS. 0]3 



notch between the spinous and soft portions, the latter being con- 

 tinuous with the caudal. Light brown, with more or less regular 

 darker cross-bars, or irregularly spotted with dark brown, sometimes 

 unitorm brown or blackish-brown ; a blackish spot between the third 

 and fourth dorsal spines. 



Mediterranean. Atlantic coasts of Europe. 

 a-c. Adult : stuffed. Frith of Forth. 



d. Nine inches and a half long : stuffed. Coast of Cornwall. 



e Adult : skin. Torquay. From Mr. Yarrell's Collection. 



/. Adult : skin. Brixham. From Mr. YarreU's CoUection. 



<1. Half-grown. South Devonshire. From the Leach Museum 



h. fine specimen. Coa^t of Ireland. Presented by the Earl of 

 Enmskillen. 



i. Adult. Dalmatia. 



k. Adult. Mediterranean. 



/. Half-grown : bad state. 



m. Half-grown. From the Haslar Collection. 



n-q. Half-groAVTi : skins and stuffed. 



r. Adult female: skeleton. From the Haslar CoUection. 



s. Adult female : skeleton. Pui-chased. 



Shehton.—lhe bones are weU ossified and very solid ; the tympanic 

 groove IS nearly entirely osseous. The skuU is elevated ; the crown 

 ot the head compressed into a short ridge bifuixating posteriorly 

 so that its upper sm-face is formed by three planes, one posterior 

 and two lateral. The intermaxiUaries and the mandibles are very 

 strong and broad, to afford a solid base for the teeth, which are rather 

 strong. The infraorbital ring is firm ; no sutures can be distinguished 

 between the single bones. Suprascapiila distinct ; humerus M-ith a 

 transverse ridge terminating in a short prominence in its lower por- 

 tion. Coracoid long, well developed. I am unable to distinguish 

 either the radius or the ulna; they appear to be united with the 

 humerus, mthout leaving sutures between them. Carpal bones four 

 the lower of which is the longest and broadest. 



There are twelve abdominal and twenty-seven caudal verUhrce, the 

 length of the former portion being to that of the latter as 1 • 1-7- 

 the vertebrae are compressed, as high as long; neural and h^mal 

 spmes of moderate length and strength; one intemeural and one 

 interhaemal correspond to one neural and hasmal; ribs feeble, long 

 with slender epipleurals. ^ 



2. Blennius cornutus. 



Blennius, sp., Gronov. Zoophijl. n. 264. 



— ^-omutiis Z^^m«„. Acad. i. p. 316, and Mus. Ad. Fried, p. 61; 

 Bl. Schn. p. 169 ; Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 95 ^ ' 

 grandicomis, Cuv. i^ Val. xi. p. 258. 



D.||. A. 23. 

 The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is con- 

 tained four times and two-thirds in the total. Snout obtuse, with 



