268 BLENNIID^. 



Scales of moderate size ; the lateral line disappears above the ex- 

 tremity of the pectoral fin. Reddish-grey, marbled with brown. ( Val.) 

 Caribbean Sea. 



Probably the type of a separate genus. 



14. Clinns superciliosns. 



Seba, iii. p. 90. tab. 80. figs. 3, 4 ; ? iii. 30. 8. 



Blennius superciliosus, L. Syst. i. p. 442; Bl. taf. 168; Bl. Schn. 



p. 170 ; Lacep. ii. pp. 468, 470. 

 r' Blennius mustelaris, L. Mus, Ad. Fried, p. 69. pi. 31. fig. 3, and 



Syst. i. p. 443. 

 ?? Blennius cinereus, L. Mtis. Ad. Fried, p. 69. 

 Blennius, sp., Ch-onov. Mtis. Ichth. ii. p. 21. no. 172. tab. 5. fig. 5, and 



Zoophyl. no. 258. 

 ? Blennius, sp., Gronov. Zoophyl. no. 261. 

 Blennius capensis, (Forster) Bl. Schn. p. 175 : Forst. Descript. Anim. 



cur. Licht. p. 408. 

 ? Blennius spadiceus, Bl. Schn. p. 172. 

 Blennius punctulatus, Lacep. ii. pp. 460, 506. pi. 12. fig. 3. 



mustela, Lacep. ii. pp. 459, 484, 486. 



Clinus superciliosus, Cuv. <^ Val. xi. p. 360. pi. 331. 

 Blennius mycterizans, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 97. 

 ? Blennius ignobilis, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 98. 

 Blennius musteUaris, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 98. 



D-'-gr- A- 2-4- ^-1/2. Vert. 18/31. 

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

 times in the total length, the length of the head four times. The 

 snout is rather short. A short fringed tentacle above the orbit. 

 Scales exceedingly small, those of the anterior portion of the lateral 

 line larger. The three anterior dorsal spines are generally stronger 

 and longer than the others and somewhat remote from them, although 

 the connecting membrane is not notched. The soft portion is more 

 elevated than the spinous, and not imited with the caudal. Greyish, 

 brownish, or yellowish ; uniform or with darker spots and blotches ; 

 sometimes an oceUated spot on the operculum, and a black one on 

 the anterior part of the dorsal. ( Val.) 



a. Large specimen : bad state : has been in chloride of zinc. Cape of 



Good Hope. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 h-g. Adult: stuffed. Cape of Good Hope. 

 h-l. Adult : skins. From Gronow's Collection. 



For want of fresh specimens I am unable to sift the synonymy, 

 which appears to refer to very different species. Valenciennes, who 

 has examined a great many specimens, thinks that the species is 

 subject to considerable variations, and that the different specific 

 denominations partly relate to them, and are partly derived from 

 specimens badly preserA-ed or figured. Gronovius, however, in his last 

 work (to which Valenciennes has not had access), says, at the end of 

 the descriptions of his three species, " Ah incuutis facile ires h.<x 

 species ccnfundi queunt ; " and his B. i{/nob{lh may bjp identical with 



