<278 GATTORUGIN BLENNY. Class IV. 



the nostrils are furnished with a minute bifid 

 appendage; behind the crest are several mi- 

 nute, erect, filiform appendiculai ; the lateral 

 line is curved near the head ; the pectoral fins 

 are large and ovate, and consist of twelve ravs ; 

 the ventral of two unconnected rays ; the dorsal 

 of thirty, and which, from the different lengths 

 of the thirteenth and fourteenth rays, appears to 

 be divided into two fins ; the anal extends from 

 the vent to the tail, and consists of eighteen 

 rays; the tail, which is rounded, of fourteen 

 rays. The color of the upper part of the body 

 is generally olive green, spotted with pale blue, 

 shaded to white ; the belly white, and the pec- 

 toral fins spotted with orange. The general 

 length from one inch and an half to two inches 

 and an half. Ed. 



2. Gatto- Scorpioides. Rondel. 204. Ges- rum viginti trium. Arted. 



rugin. ner pise. 847. Synon. 44. 



Gattorugine Venetiis. Wil. Blennius Gattorugine. Lin. 



Ichih. 132. Rati Syn. pise. Syst. 442. Gm. Lin. 1177. 



72. La Gattorugine. Block ichlh. 



Blennius pinnulis duabus ad v. 94. tah. 167. f. 2. 



oculos, pinna ani ossiculo- De la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



sons, ii. 4(>8. 



Place. AHIS curious kind was discovered to be a 

 British fish on the Anglesey coast. 



