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black spots (mostly ten) along the back and at the base of the dorsal fin 

 partly bordered by a white edge. This species is oviparous, and occurs in 

 the North Sea. It is more than probable that LiNN^US confounded this 

 fish with Opliidion imberbe (p. 124), when he admitted the last-named 

 species into the Swedish Fauna. — In the Fauna Japonica two new species 

 are described of this genus of Blennoids. For other species compare Cuv. 

 et Valknc. Poiss. xi. Reinhardt distinguishes here the following genus. 



Stichceus Reinh. Rays of brancliiostegous membrane six. Several 

 rows of pores or lateral lines. 



Sp. GunneUus punctatus Valenc, Blennlus pundatus 0. Fabricius, Skrivter 

 af Naturhisiorie Selskahet, 11. 2, 1793, p. 84, Tab. 10, fig. 3. This species 

 has indeed superficially some resemblance to Gunncllus vulgaris, yet the 

 eye-shaped spots do not lie half on the back and half on the dorsal fin, but 

 entirely on the last, and are less numerous ; moreover the ventral fins are 

 more developed and the head is larger, which is also the case with another 

 species of this subdivision, Stlchccus tmimaculatus Reinh. 



Glinvs Cuv. Body compressed, scaly. Larger conical teetli in 

 the front row of both jaws, lesser, crowded, arranged in a belt 

 behind the former. Small teeth in vomer, sometimes also in palate- 

 bones. Dorsal iin supported by many spinose rays, with a few 

 posterior rays, soft, articulate. Ventral fins biradiate, jugular. 



Sp. Clinus argentatus Val., Blcnnius argentatus Eisso and Bl. Aiidifredi 

 ejusd. Ichth. de Nice, PI. 6. fig. 15, from the Medit. Sea ; — Clinus superci- 

 liosus, Blennius superciliosus L., Geonov., Zoophyl. Tab. v. fig. 5, Block 

 Ichth. Tab. 168 ; a feeler above the eye ; the first three dorsal fin-rays pro- 

 duced ; roch-fish, very common at the Cape of Good Hope, &c. 



Add genera or sub-genera : Gristic&j^s Cuv., Yalenc, Tripterygion 

 Eisso, Valenc, Cirribarhis Cuv. 



Myxodes Cuv. 



Sp. Myxodes ocellatus Cuv., Val. Poiss. Xi. PI. 335 ; from the sea of Chili, 

 like the other Sp. of this genus. 



Salarias Cuv. Teetli numerous, setaceous, mobile, in a single 

 row in each jaw ; palatine teeth none. Ventral fins biradiate, 

 jugular. Scales none. Dorsal fin mostly emarginate or divided 

 into two lobes. Cirrus on each side above the eye. 



Sp. Salarias quadripennis Cuv., Val., Salarias omatus Eheenb., Blennius 

 gattorugine Forsk. (not Willughb.); Red Sea, Indian Ocean, &c. To 

 this genus belongs also Blennius fasciatus Bloch Ichth. Tab. 162, fig. i. 



Blennius CuY. Maxillary teeth elongate, thin, in a single row, 

 ;h last tooth on both sides sometimes larger in lower or in botli 

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