OCELLATED BLENNY. 



ACANTHOPTERYGIL GOBIOIDM. 



THE OCELLATED BLENNY, OR 

 BUTTERFLY FISH. 



Blennius ocellaris, Brunnich, p. 25, sp. 35, 

 ,, ,, Bloch, pt. V. pi. 167. 



,, ,, CuviER, Regne An. t. iii. p. 237. 



,, ,, Ocellated Blenny, Montagu, Mem. Wern. Soc. vol. ii. 



p. 443, pi. 22. 

 ,, ,, „ Flem. Brit. An. p. 206, sp. 119. 



The Ocellated Blenny was first described as a 

 British fish by Colonel Montagu, who obtained three spe- 

 cimens by dredging on the south coast of Devon. 



The example from which the present description and 

 figure were taken, was obtained among the rocks of the 

 island of Portland. 



The length near three inches ; the head rounded and 

 blunt : teeth in a single row, small, elongated, rather uneven 

 at the edge, as if some of them had been broken off; the 

 last tooth on each side, both above and below, considerably 

 longer than the others : the eyes large, irides golden ; 

 attached to the anterior edge of the orbits are two large 



