Detcr. 
1a SMOOTH BLENNY. ChéIv, 
of its ventral fins creep up between the ftones with 
great facility. It bit extremely hard, and would 
hang at ones finger for a confiderable time. It was 
very tenacious of life, and would live for near a 
day out of water. 
It feeds on fhells and {mall crabs, whofe remains 
we found in its ftomach. 
The length in general was five inches: the head 
large, and floping fuddenly to the mouth: the irides 
red. 
The teeth flender, very fharp, and clofe fet: there 
were twenty-four in the upper, and nineteen in the 
lower jaw. : 
The pectoral fins broad and rounded, confifting 
of thirteen rays: the ventral fins of only two thick 
rays, feparated near their ends. 
The dorfal fin confifted of thirty-two foft rays, 
and reached from the hind part of the head almoft 
to the tail. 
~The vent was in the middle of the body: the 
anal fin extended almoft to the tail, and confifted of 
nineteen rays, tipt with white. 
The tail rounded at the end, and compofed of 
twelve branched rays. 
The color varied, fome were quite black, but ge- 
nerally they were of a deep olive, prettily marbled © 
with a deeper color; others fpotted with white: the 
laft often difpofed in rows above and beneath the 
lateral line. 
IV. The 
