210 GADITES. 



an exact figure even to the coloring, was noticed, 

 which truly exhibits the blenny of the harbors of 

 Massachusetts, and must, therefore, we strongly 

 suspect, have been drawn from the American 

 blenny. 



Its length is from one to two feet ; the head is 

 thick and broad, projecting teeth, white, retractile 

 lips, and a second row of fine, sharp, small teeth 

 or holders, on the margins of the jaws just within 

 the first arch. The second dorsal fin reaches near- 

 ly to the tail ; the ventral fins are rather slender, 

 trifurcate, with a lateral line tuberculated above 

 the pectoral fins. 



THE BLENNY. 



The shape of the blenny is lanceolate, from the 

 pectoral fins to the tail, which ends in a point or 

 soft brush of flexible caudal rays. The dorsal, 

 anal and caudal fins are all united into one, ex- 

 cepting at one place near the tail, encircling 

 the back and belly, with this one exception, and 

 terminating at the vent. 



The pectoral fins have seventeen rays. Its 



