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NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



brown streaks on the cheeks. There are five black spots, joined to as many white ones, on 

 the dorsal, and about twelve less conspicuous, and all black, on the anal. 

 Fins.— Br. 7 ; D. 50; P. 17 ; V. 4 * ; A. 38; C. 18. 



[41.] 2. Blennius (Clinus) lumpenus. (Fabr.) The Lumpen. 



Blennius cirris subgula pinniformibus quasi bifidis, areolis dorsi transversis. Artedi. 



Sijn,, p. 45. 

 Blennius lumpenus. Fabr. Fauna Grcenl.,^.\^\. 

 Teyamak. Greeni.anders. 



This is another Greenland species which is considered to be the same with one 

 that exists on the Dutch coast. In calms it reposes on the clayey or sandy bottom 

 of the places it frequents, with its body bent backwards and forwards ; at other 

 times it conceals itself among the sea-weed. It spawns among the fuci in the 

 month of July. 



DESCRIPTION 

 Abridged from the Fauna Grcenlandica. 

 Length eleven inches and a quarter, the thickness being scarcely one. Its body is round, 

 nearly of equal diameter from the head to the anus, from whence it becomes more lanceolate. 

 Head narrower than the body, mouth small, the upper jaw scarcely longer than the lower one. 

 The ventral fins are so soft, white, and slender, that they may be readily taken for gular bar- 

 bels ; they contain, however, three rays, the lower of which is the longest, and is divided from 

 the next by a fissure : the upper ray is so small as to be scarcely perceptible. The even 

 dorsal occupies the whole back, but is distinct from the obovate caudal : its spines curve back- 

 wards. The scales are small, round, and firmly imbedded in the smooth skin. The back 

 and sides have a palish colour, and are marked irregularly with brown spotted circles : the 

 head and pectorals are yellowish, and the belly white, with a yellowish tint behind the anus. 



The fifth sub-genus of the Blennies is Cirrhibarba, which is founded on a single 

 Indian species, having the form of Clinus, but teeth like velvet pile, a small barbel 

 over each eye, another at the nostril, three large ones at the extremity of the snout, 

 and eight on the tip of the jaw. 



* Pinna; ventraltt minutw qvatuor quidem constant radtis molhbns. &c. 



