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Page 216. Add another species : — 

 9 a. Blennius melanio. 

 Kessler, Bull. Soc. Nat. 3Iosc. 1859, 2. p. 230. 

 D.if. A. 24-25. 



The height of the body is one-sixth of the total length, the length 

 of the head a little more than one-fifth. Anterior profile of the snout 

 rather abrupt ; two strong curved teeth on each side of the lower 

 jaw, none in the upper. Orbital tentacle short, simple, filiform. 

 Uniform brownish-grey ; a series of blackish spots along the margins 

 of the dorsal and anal. {Kessler.) 



Bay of Sebastopol. — ^Twelve to eighteen lines long. 



Page 21 7. Blennius vulgaris. 

 Add to the synonymy : — 

 ? Ichthj'oooris varus, Gervais in Rev. Zool. 1859, p. 347. 



Page 218. Blennius sanguinolentus. 



Add to the sjmonymy : — 



Blennius sanguinolentus, Rathke, Fauna der Krym, p. 34 ; Kessler, 

 Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1859, 2. p. 227. 



Kessler has made a very important observation in this species, 

 viz. that the number of teeth increases -with age ; he found 38-40 

 in specimens six inches long, 26-28 in specimens two inches and a 

 half, 22-24 in others one inch and a half. 



Page 221. Blennius pavo. 



Add to the synonj'my : — 



Blennius lepidus, Rathke, Fauna der Krt/m, p. 34 ; Kessler, Bull. Soc. 

 Nat. Mosc. 1859, 2. p. 220. 



Page 222. Blennius galerita. 



Add to the synonymy : — 

 Blennius montagui, Kessler, Bull. Soc. Nat. 3Iosc. 1859, 2. p. 229. 

 This species was not previously known from the Black Sea. 



Page 224. Blennius crinitus. 

 This species appears to have a very wide geographical range, a 

 second specimen being from the Cape of Good Hope. 



b. Adult. Cape Seas. Presented by the Officers of the Army Medical 

 Department at Fort Pitt. 



Page 225. Blennius bifilum. 

 h-c. Thirty-four lines long. Cape of Good Hope. Presented by the 

 Officers of the Army Medical Department at Fort Pitt. 



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