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BLENNIID^. 



Body elongate, more or less cylindrical, naked or with small scales ; 

 one, two, or three dorsal fins occupyiiuj nearly the whole hack, as rnuch or 

 more developed than the soft; anal long, ventrals jugnlar or absent; 

 carnivorous. 



Trypterygium. 



Not veiy elongate, covered with small scales ; jaws with a band of 

 villiform teeth ; teeth on the palate ; three dorsal fins, the two anterior 

 of which are spinous ; ventrals jugular, with two soft rays. 



Mediterranean. 



I have always found this genus to be marine. 



47. TRYPTERYGIUM NIGRIPENNB. C. and V. CM. 

 T. capito, Jenyns, p. 94, pi. 19. T. nigripenne, Giinth., III., 277. 



D. 5-6|18-19|13-14; A. 26. 

 A TENTACLE over the eye, which is sometimes simple, sometimes divided 

 into two or four lobes ; teeth on the vomer ; length three and four fifths 

 that of the head, which is tliree and three-eighth times the diameter of 

 the eye ; length of snout equal to the diameter of the eye ; interorbital 

 space less than half the diameter of the eye ; lateral line follows the 

 curvature of the back, and stops before the end of the second dorsal, 

 not descending to the middle of the depth of the body ; nasal tentacle 

 simple. 



White ; orbital tentacle black ; body reddish brown, mottled with 

 darker, lighter below ; first dorsal blackish, the othere greyish, spotted 

 with black. 



Wellington Harbour. 



48. TRYPTERYGIUM FORSTERI. C. and V. 



T.forsteri, Gunth., III., 278. 

 B. 6; D. 3 1 16 1 15; A. 24; V. 2. 

 A FRINGED tentacle above the orbit and at the nostril. 



Brown, spotted with reddish; a semicircular blackish-blue golden- 

 edged spot at the base of the pectoral (Forst.) 

 New Zealand? 

 I have seen no specimens. 



