TION. 



Class IV. CRESTED BLENNY. £77 



four or five inches long. On the head is a Descrip. 

 small crest-like fin, which it can erect or depress 

 at pleasure. On the top of the head, between 

 the eyes, is a triangular lump pointing back- 

 wards, and red about its edges. The skin at 

 the corner of the upper jaw is loose, and pro- 

 jects ; from the hind part of the head, almost to 

 the tail, extends the dorsal fin ; the ventral fin 

 is small ; the vent is placed under the ends of 

 the pectoral fins. The body is smooth and 

 slippery : the color brown, and spotted, 



Montagu in Mem. JVern. Soc. g8. tab. 5. /. 2. (Var.?) 



Diminutive, 



[Mr. Montagu describes a Blenny frequently 

 caught on the western coast, which differs from 

 the above in many respects, particularly in the 

 breadth of the dorsal and anal fins, and in the 

 former having a remarkable flexure in the mid- 

 dle, instead of being straight ; on the head is no 

 triangular lump, but a transverse, fleshy, fim- 

 briated membrane. The body is rather more 

 slender than that of the Smooth Blenny; the 

 head much sloped ; the upper lip furnished with 

 a bony plate that projects at the angles of the 

 mouth into a thin lamina, which turns down- 

 wards, the ends of which are orange colored 5 



