3. BLENNIUS. 215 



with a long simple tentacle above ; some very fine tentacles on each 

 side of the nape ; crest none ; no curved tooth in the jaws. Dorsal 

 fin scarcely notched. Light brown : head, body, and anal fin dotted 

 with blue. 



Djetta (Red Sea). 



Cuv. 4" Val xi. p. 2G0. 



Blennius capito. 



D. i^;. A. 22-23. 



The height of the body is contained five times and a half in the 

 total length, the length of the head four times and three-fourths. 

 Snout obtuse, with the upper proiile abruptly descending. Jaws 

 without a curved tooth. Superciliary margin swollen, with a short 

 fringed tentacle posteriorly; a transverse groove behind the ten- 

 tacles. The arched portion of the lateral line formed by two series 

 of pores. The dorsal and anal fins enveloped in thick skin ; the 

 dorsal begins above the middle of the operculum, is very slightly 

 notched, and not continuous with the caudal. Brown, varied with 

 lighter. 



Cape Seas. 



a. Adult. Cape of Good Hope. 



b. Adult : stuffed. Cape of Good Hope. From Sir A. Smith's Col- 



lection. 



c. Adult : stuffed. 



7. Blennius erythrocephalus. 



Blennius erythrocephalus, Risso, Eur. llerid. ill. p. 2.36. fig. 42. 

 Blennius rubrieeps, Cuv. 8f Val. xi. p. 248. 



D.L^. A. 22. 



The first three rays of the dorsal fin are somewhat elevated and 

 remote from the others ; the soft portion continuous with the caudal. 

 A longitudinal crest on the head (in males), and a very small tentacle 

 above the orbit. The curved teeth in the jaws are well developed. 

 Brownish : the top of the dorsal and the upper part of the head red. 



Mediterranean. 



8. Blennius tentacularis. 



Blennius tentacularis, Briinn. IHsc. Mass. p. 26 ; Bl. Schn. p. 169 ; 



Lacep. ii. p. 474 ; Cm: ^ Val. xi. p. 212. pi. 319 ; Guichen. Explor. 



Alger. Poiss. p. 69. 

 aimtus, Pall. Zoor/r. iii. p. 172 ; Nordm. in Demid. Voy. Buss. 



Merid. iii. p. 403. pi." 6. fig. 2. 



miuutus et ventrosus, Rathke, Fauna der Krym, pp. 330, 331. 



comutus, Lacep. ii. p. 473 ; Bisso, Ichthyol. Nice, p. 128. 



punctulatus, Bisso, Bur. Merid. iii. p. 231. 



brea, Bisso, Ichthyol. Nice, p. 129, and Eur. Merid. iii. p. 233. 



D. ""'I A. 22-24. 



19-20 



The height of the body is nearly equal to the length of the head, 



