FISHES. JUGULARES. 11. Blennius 93 



32. B. Phyds. Grey-brown, with the nostrils slightly 

 crested : lower-lip with a cirrus : back with 2 fins. 



Hake Blenny. Forked Hake. Br. ZooL iii. f. 193. *. 82. 



2. Body about half the size, black, fmooth. 



Body about a foot long : palate with a triangular bed of fin all 

 teeth : lateral-line curved : vent in the middle of the body : dorfal- 

 fins 10, 6i-rayed, the first triangular with the first ray long and 

 slender, fecond commencing just behind the first and reaching 

 nearly to the tail ; pectoral 15 ; ventral 2-rayed, joined at the bottom 

 and forked towards the end ; anal 57 ; tail rounded, 3o-rayed. 



33. B. trifurcatus. Brown, with white lips : ventral-fins 

 of 3 distinct cirri 



Trifurcated Blenny. Br. ZooL \\\.p. 196. t. 32. 



Body about a foot long, deep brown, except the foldings of the 

 lips which are fuowy ; compressed from the pectoral-fins, and fud- 

 denly tapering to the tail : lower-jaw with a fmall beard : head 

 broad, depressed : eyes large, iris yellowish : palate with a femi- 

 lunar row of fmall curved teeth : tongue none : back with a cavity 

 at the beginning, in which is the rudiment of the first dorfal-fin; 

 fecond dorsal-Jin reaching to the tail, the aa/correfponding : above 

 the pectoral-fin each side a row of tubercles, from which commences 

 the lateral-line which is abruptly curved in the middle : tail 

 rounded. 



34. B. Pholis. Olive-green, marbled with blackish and 

 whitish clouds : lateral-line curved sub-bifid. 



Smooth Blenny. Brit. Zool. iii. t. 36. Donovan t, 78. 



Body 7 or 8 inches long, olive, dark-brown or green, variously 

 clouded, with orange fins: head thick: mouth large : jaws armed 

 with a row of sharp teeth, the upper-one longer : lips whitish : 

 nostrils with 4 fibres : eyes large, iris red, pupil black : 'longuc 

 fmooth : palate rough : vent nearer the head : dorfal : fin long, ap- 

 pearing as if divided in the middle, 3i-rayed ; pectoral rounded, 12 ; 

 ventral divided at the ciid, ?; anal 20, the ends of the rays pure 

 white; tail rounded, i3-rayed, 



33. B. Gunnelus. Yellowish-brown, with deeper specks; 

 dorsal. fin with about 10 round black spots, each sur- 

 rounJed with a paler ring. 



Spotted Blenny. Brit. Zool. iii. t. 33. Donovan Fishes t, 27. 



Body 8 or 9 inches long, slender, much compressed, white be- 

 neath : head fmall : mouth sloping obliquely downwards : lower-jauu 

 longer : iris white, pupil black : lateral-line straight, obfolete : vent 

 nearer the head : dorsal-Jin nearly as long as the .body, with 9-12 

 ojcllate fpots, 77-rayed ; pectoral fmall, 12; ventral 2 ; anal orange, 

 fpotted with brown at the bafe, 43 ; tdil yellow, rounded, 

 i6-rayed. 



36. B. iiuiparus. Olive, with dusky bars down the sides, 

 beneath white : nostrils tubular : dorsal caudal aai 

 anal-fins united. 



Viviparous Blenny. Br. ZooL iii. t. 37. Donovan t. 34. 



Body about 12 inches long, taper, yellowish-olive with dusky 

 bars acrofsthe hack, covered with minute oblong white fcales edged 

 with black : head finall : upp>r-jdjj longer : ve-nt nearer the head : 

 lateral-line straight, obfolete : tlno.it yellow : dorfal-fin with a deep 

 indenture near the tail, ga-rayed ; pectoral yellow, 48 ; ventral 2; 

 anal yeilo.v 63; caaJal iS-raycd. 



