Place. 
Detcr. 
168 GAT TORUGINE; Che TV. 
The {kin at the corner of the upper jaw is loofe, 
and projects. ‘ 
From the hind part of the head almoft to the tail 
extends the dorfal fin: the ventral fin is {fmall: the 
vent is placed under the ends of the peétoral fins. 
The body is {mooth and flippery : the color 
brown, and fpotted. 
le Vhe'G A T°tO Roe Gite 
Scorpioides. Rondel. 204, Ge/- ad oculos, pinna ani officu- 
ner pifc. 84.7. lorum viginti trium. rted. 
Gattorugine Venetiis:s Wil. Icth. — fynom. 44.. 
132. Rai fyn. pile. 72. Blennius Gattorugine. Lin. /yf. 
Blennius pinnulis duabus ad 442. 
HIS curious kind was difcovered to be a Bri- 
tif) fifh, by the Rev. Mr. Williams, who found 
it on the Anglefea coaft, and favored us with it. 
Its length was feven inches and an half: the body 
was {mooth, and compreffed on the fides: the belly 
a little prominent: the vent fituated as in the pre- 
ceding fifh. 
The teeth flender, almoft fetaceous, and very 
clofe fet : between the eyes was a {mall hollow, and 
above each juft on the fummit was a narrow loofe 
membrane, trifurcated at the top, which diftinguithes 
this from all other {pecies. 
The pectoral fins broad and rounded, confifting 
of fourteen rays, which extend beyond the webs, 
making the edges appear {calloped. 
The 
