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fin, a more elongated slender body, short ventral fins, and 

 longer anal fin, exhibits in these various particulars so many- 

 relations to the characters of the genus next in succession, 

 and is therefore placed last. 



The fishes of this genus are of little value : they swim 

 in small shoals, feeding on minute crustaceous animals, 

 and some of them are remarkably tenacious of life. They 

 are most frequently found, left by the retiring tide, in 

 small pools on the rocky parts of the coast, are active 

 and vigilant, hiding themselves in small crevices or under 

 sea-weed, and remaining concealed till the return of the 

 tide. 



The example of Dr. Fleming has been followed in con- 

 sidering this Blenny, described by Colonel Montagu in 

 the Wernerian Memoirs before referred to under the term 

 galerita, as distinct from the galerita of Linnseus : the 

 uniformity in the boundary line of the dorsal fin in the 

 true galerita, and the interrupted line in the fish figured 

 and described by Montagu, being one of the most obvious 

 characters for distinction. The number of the rays in the 

 dorsal and anal fins in B. Montagui are only as thirty 

 to fifty-one in the dorsal, and eighteen to thirty-six in the 

 anal, as compared with the galerita of Linnseus, which will 

 be hereafter described. 



Not having been so fortunate as to obtain a specimen 

 of this fish, the account given is derived from Colonel 

 Montagu, and the figure is from a drawing by Mr. Couch, 

 who in his MS. briefly refers to this fish as occurring in 

 Cornwall, and as being very active and difficult to catch. 



" Body rather more slender than that of the Smooth 

 Blenny. Head much sloped ; eyes high up, approximat- 

 ing, gilded ; the upper lip furnished with a bony plate 

 that projects at the angles of the mouth into a thin lamina 



