222 BLENNIin.E. 



24. Blennius ocellaris. 



Scorpioides, Rondel, vi. cap. 20. p. 204 (bad) ; Gcstier, p. 847 ; Aldror. 



p. 116. 

 • Blennius (Mesoro), Salt: Aq. p. 217 ; Bellon. p. 221 ; Gcsiur, p. 130 ; 



Aldrov. p. 203; Jomton, i. tit. 3. cap. 1. art. 15. tab. 19. fig. 5; 



Willughhy, p. 131. tab. II. 3. fig. 2 ; Ray, p. 72. 

 Blennius, n" 1, Artedi, Gen. p. 20; Kli-in, Pise. Miss. v. p. 31. n. 1. 

 Blennius ocellaris, L. Si/st. i. p. 442 ; Briinn. Pise. 3Iass. p. 25 ; £1. 



taf. 167. fig. 1 ; Rl. 'Schn. p. 168 ; Risso, lehth. Niee, p. 125, and. 



Eur. Merid. iii. p. 229; Monday. Wern. Mem. ii. p. 443. pi. 22. 



fig. 2 ; Martens, Reise naeh Venedig, ii. p. 418 ; Cm\ Sf Vol. xi. 



p. 220 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, 2nd edit. i. p. 253 ; Cm: Reqne Anitn. 



Rl. Poiss. pi. 77. fig. 1. 



papilio, (Z. Gm.) Guichen. Explor. Algdr. Poiss. p. 70. 



lepus, Lacep. ii. p. 461. 



Adonis pavoninus, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 93. 



D-n^- A. 18. Vert.,-^,. 



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

 and four times and two-thii-ds in the total. Snout tiimcated, with 

 the anterior profile vertical. A strong curved tooth in both jaws. 

 Orbital tentacle well developed ; the interorbital space is concave, and 

 its width is much less than the vertical diameter of the eye. The 

 spinous dorsal elevated, rather higher than the body ; the soft not con- 

 tinuous with the caudal. A round black, white-edged spot on the sixth 

 and seventh dorsal spines ; body brownish, with darker cross-bars. 



Mechterranean. Coasts of the Peninsula, France, and South 

 England. 



«. Adult: stuffed. Plymouth. Presented by Lieut. H.F. Spence, R.N. 

 h. Half-grown. Torcross (Devonshire). From the Leach Museum. 



c. Half-growu. South Devonshire. From the Leach Museum. 



d. Adult: skin. South Devonshire. From Mr. Yarrell's Collection. 



e. Adult : skin. From Gronow's Collection. 



/, g-l, m-q, r, s, t, u, v. Adult and half-grown. 

 w. Adult : skeleton. 



Skeleton. — The general form and stinictiu'e of the skull is the same 

 as in B. gattorugine, the different ridges being somewhat more pro- 

 minent : the interorbital space, which is flat in B. gattorugine, is con- 

 cave ; the posterior portion of the infraorbital ring is bent outwards ; 

 lower jaw longer than broad. There are eleven abdominal and 

 twenty-one caudal vertebrae, the length of the former portion being 

 to that of the caudal as 1 : 1'7. 



25. Blennius galerita. 



Blennius, n. 4, Artedi, Genera, p. 27 (not Si/non.) ; Klein, Pise. 3Iiss. 



V. p. 32. 

 galerita, L. Syst. i. p. 441 ; Rl. Schti. p. 109 ; Montagu, Wern. 



Mem. i. p. 98. pi. 5. fig. 2. 

 montagui, Flem.Rrit.Anim.:^. 206; Cuv.^-Val. xi. p. 234. pi. 322; 



Yarr. Rrit. Fis/ies, 2nd edit. i. p. 249, 3rd edit. ii. p. 355 ; Guichen. 



Explor. Alger. Poiss. p. 72. 



