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TENTACULATED BLENNY. 



Blennius Tentacularis. B. exalbidus, fnfco maculatus, radio 



supra oculos simplici, pinna dorsali antice unioculala. 

 Whitish Blenny, spotted with brown, with a simple cirruis 



over the eyes, and a large ocellated spot on the back fin. 

 Blennius tentacularis. B. radio supra oculos simplici, pinna 



dorsali integra antice unioculata. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel* 



p. 1179. Brunn.pisc. massil. No. 36. 



THIS small species is greatly allied to the horned 

 Blenny before described, but is scarcely more than 

 two inches and a half long. Cepede seems inclined 

 to consider it as a variety of the horned Blenny 

 caused by a difference of climate; this being a 

 Mediterranean and the other an Indian fish. It 

 is of an elongated form, and of a whitish colour, 

 variegated with dusky clouds and specks; and 

 marked on the back fin by a large ocellated spot : 

 above each eye is a simple tentacular process, and 

 the head is marked beneath by three or four trans- 

 verse white bars : the irides are silvery, with red 

 specks : the dorsal and anal fins are variegated 

 with dusky spots and streaks. 



