BLENNIUS. BLENNY. 



Generic Character. 



Caput declive. 



Corpus elongatum, subcom- 



pressum, lubricum. 

 Memb. branch, radiis sex. 

 Pinnce centrales di, tri, s. 



tetradactylse, muticae. 



Head sloping. 



Body lengthened, 6ubcorn- 



pressed, lubricous. 

 Gill-membrane six-rayed. 

 Ventral fins two, three, or 



four-rayed, unarmed. 



With appendiculated head. 



Crested blenny.. 



Biennius Galerita. B. fusco-flavescens mgro-punctatus, crista 



capitis transversa cutacea. 

 Yellowish-brown Blenny,, with black specks, and a transverse 



skinny crest on the head. 

 Biennius Galerita. B. crista capitis transversa cutanea. Lin> 



Syst. Nat. p. 441. Adonis. Bell, aquat. p. 21Q. 

 Crested Blenny. Penn. Brit. Zool. 3. pi. 96. 



General length about four or five inches : body 

 long, compressed, smooth and slippery : colour yel- 

 lowish brown, freckled with darker coloured specks : 

 belly of a paler cast : head furnished on the middle 

 with a transverse finny appendage, which may be 



