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conic or angular, but sometimes irregularly trun- 

 cated, though always fimbriated. 



Many of the genus Blennius are more or less 

 crested ; but the Galerita appears to be the only 

 species hitherto described, which has that appen- 

 dage placed transversely. 



This, as well as the Gattorugine, is occasionally 

 taken, with the Pholis or Smooth Blenny, among 

 the rocks on the south coast of Devon, in the pools 

 left by the receding tide, and of these the Gatto- 

 rugine may be esteemed the most rare, as only two 

 instances have occurred in many years research*. 



* A very respectable author says, the Gattorugine 

 has two pairs of ramified tentaeula on the head, the first 

 pair over the eyes, the other over the back of the head. 

 It is usually described to have only one pair, and those I 

 have examined had only , one branched appendage on each 

 eyebrow, but the nostrils are tubular, and fimbriated. 



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