382 PISCES (OSSEI) ACANTHOPT. [BLENNIUS. 



The colour above generally olive-green spotted with pale blue sha< 

 white ; the belly white, arid the pectoral fins spotted with orange." I 



shaded to 

 MONT. 



Montagu observes that this" species is occasionally taken, with the 

 B. Gattorugine and B. Pholis, among the rocks on the south coast of 

 Devon, in me pools left by the receding tide. Several specimens seem 

 to have been noticed by him. It has also occurred to Mr. Couch in Corn- 

 wall ; but none of our other naturalists appear to have met with it. I see 

 no reason for supposing it distinct from the Alauda cristata of Willughby, 

 the Galei'ita of Rondeletius, although not the same as the J5. Galenta of 

 Linnaeus, who (as Mr. Yarrell has pointed out) has confounded this spe- 

 cies with that which has been since termed by Cuvier B. palmicornis. 

 Should the contrary hereafter appear, it will then be proper to exchange 

 the name of Galerita for that of Montagui, first adopted by Fleming. 



Head without appendages. 



57. B. PholiS) Linn. (Smooth Blenny, or Shan.] 

 Dorsal notched in the middle ; not continuous with the 

 caudal. 



B. Pholis, Linn. Syst. Nat. torn. i. p. 443. Block, Ichth. pi. 71. 

 f. 2. Don. Brit. Fish. vol. iv. pi. 79. Alauda non cristata, Will. 

 Hist. Pise. p. 133. c. xxi. tab. H. 6. f. 2. Pholis laevis, Flem. 

 Brit. An. p. 207. Smooth Blenny, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. in. 

 p. 208. pi. 36. Id. (Edit. 1812.) vol. in. p. 280. pi. 40. Shanny, 

 or Smooth Shan, Yarr. Brit. Fish. vol. i. p. 230. Baveuse com- 

 mune, Cuv. Reg. An. torn. n. p. 238. 



LENGTH. From four to five inches. 



DESCRIPT. (Form.) Thicker anteriorly than the B. Gattorugine; the 

 head less compressed; the body not quite so deep: depth, contained a 

 little more than four times in the whole length, caudal excluded : thick- 

 ness two-thirds of the depth : snout short and obtuse ; profile almost ver- 

 tical : teeth crowded, with one or two longer than the others, and hooked, 

 at the end of each series above and below : eyes smaller, and not so high 

 on the cheeks as in B. Gattorugine; the space between wider, with only 

 a very slight longitudinal depression : no appendages on the head of any 

 kind, or transverse sulcus on the nape, which last part is rather convex : 

 lateral line similar, taking a sweep over the pectorals : dorsal commencing 

 at a greater distance from the end of the snout by one-fourth, and ter- 

 minating a little before it reaches the caudal ; first ray a little shorter 

 than the second ; fifth, sixth, and seventh, slightly the longest, equalling 

 not quite half the depth ; eighth and following ones decreasing to the 

 twelfth, which is the shortest in the whole fin, and only half the length of 

 the thirteenth, or first of the articulated rays ; rest of the fin nearly even : 

 anal answering to the posterior portion of the dorsal, but terminating 

 a little sooner, leaving a larger space between it and the caudal: pectorals 

 rather more rounded than in the B. Gattorugine, the middle rays being 

 not so much elongated : ventrals rather shorter, of only two rays, the 

 inner one longest: 



B. 6; D. 12/19 ; A. 20; C. 11, and 4 short; P. 13; V. 2. 



(Colours.) Marbled and variegated with dusky and olive-brown, occa- 

 sionally more or less spotted with white : rays of the anal always tipped 

 with this last colour. 



