492 TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



torals broad ; ventrals small, but divided ; tail rounded ; 

 dorsal with thirty-one, anal with twenty rays. 



38. PHOLIS L^EVIS, Flem. Skygg Fisk. The Shanny. 



Body round, elongated ; usual length here 6 in. to 

 7 in. Colour varies, but generally olive green, marbled 

 with dark brown. D. 12,19; A. 20; P. 13; Y. 1,3; 



C. 15. 



The coast of Bergen, in Norway, is the only place in these 

 seas where the shanny has yet been taken. 



Gen. Blenniops, Nilss. 



Two pair of tentacles on the forehead ; dorsal rays fifty, 

 anal forty ; body more slender than the last, covered with 

 small scales. The long dorsal joins the sharp-pointed tail. 



39. BLENNIOPS GALERITA, Nilss. Tang Snarta. The Crested 



Blenny ; Garr ell's Blenny. 



Is not very rare on the Norwegian coast north and 

 south of Bergen, but is found nowhere else in these seas. 



D. 51; P. 14; A. 40; V. 1,3; C.18. Colour varies, but 

 is always mottled like the last. Length 7 in. 



Gen. Lumpenus, Reinh. 



Of these fish Nilsson remarks " They are so totally 

 unlike any others of this family, that at the first glance it is 

 easy to see that they form a separate genus. Fries has de- 

 scribed two Scandinavian species as belonging to this genus 

 under the name of clinus. According to him, we ought 

 entirely to lay aside the generic name of lumpenus, because 

 Blen. lumpenus, L., is no other than a nominal species which 

 belongs to zoarcceus viviparus. But as the generic name of 

 lumpenus has already been adopted by many, I think it best 

 to retain it." 



Body long, resembling that of the common gunnel, more 

 round than compressed, covered with small thin scales, laid 

 on like shingles. Nose projecting, blunt ; gape horizontal; 

 teeth in the jaws, awl shaped ; on the sides in a thin single 

 row, but in front, on the top jaw, in several rows, of which 



