210 GADITES. 



an exact figure even to the coloring, was noticed, 

 which truly exhibits the blenny of the harbors of 

 Massachusetts, and must, therefore, we strongly- 

 suspect, have been drawn from the American 

 blenny. 



Its length is from one to two feet ; the head is 

 thick and broad, projecting teeth, white, retractile 

 lips, and a second row of fine, sharp, small teeth 

 or holders, on the margins of the jaws just within 

 the first arch. The second dorsal fin reaches near- 

 ly to the tail ; the ventral fins are rather slender, 

 trifurcate, with a lateral line tuberculated above 

 the pectoral fins. 



THE BLENNY. 



The shape of the blenny is lanceolate, from the 

 pectoral fins to the tail, which ends in a point or 

 soft brush of flexible caudal rays. The dorsal, 

 anal and caudal fins are all united into one, ex- 

 cepting at one place near the tail, encircling 

 the back and belly, with this one exception, and 

 terminating at the vent. 



The pectoral fins have seventeen rays. Its 



