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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 LINX^EUS confounded this 

 fish with Ophidian 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 VALENC. Poiss. xi. REIJTHARDT distinguishes here the following genus. 



Stichceus REINH. Rays of branchiostegous membrane six. Several 

 rows of pores or lateral lines. 



Sp. Gunnellus punctatus VALENC., Blennius punctatus 0. FABRICIUS, Shrivter 

 af Naturhistorie Selskabet, n. i, 1793, p. 84, Tab. 10, fig. 3. This species 

 has indeed superficially some resemblance to Gunnellus 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, Stichceus unimaculatus REINH. 



Clinus Cuv. Body compressed, scaly. Larger conical teeth 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 fin supported by many spinose rays, with a few 

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



Sp. Clinus argentatus VAL., Blennius argentatus Eisso and Bl. Audifredi 

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

 liosus, Blennius superciliosus L., GBONOV., Zoophyl. Tab. v. fig. 5, BLOCH 

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

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



Add genera or sub-genera : Cristiceps Cuv., VALENC., Tripterygion 

 Risso, VALENC., Cirribarbis Cuv. 



Myxodes Cuv. 



Sp. Myxodes ocdlatus Cuv., VAL. Poiss. XI. PL 335 ; from the sea of Chili, 

 like the other Sp. of this genus. 



Salarias Cuv. Teeth 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 ornatus EHBENB., Elennius 

 gattorugine FORSK. (not WILLUGHB.) ; Red Sea, Indian Ocean, &c. To 

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



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

 with last tooth on both sides sometimes larger in lower or in both 

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