SUPERCILIOUS BLENNY. 169 



"pressed form, and of a whitish or pale ash-colour, 

 variegated, particularly on the upper parts and 

 dorsal fin, by several transverse undulations or 

 streaks of a darker tinge : these colours are observed 

 to vary ; the streaks and spots being sometimes 

 olive-coloured with pale blue edges ; but what 

 particularly distinguishes the fish from its con- 

 geners, is a double pair of ramified tentacula or 

 lengthened processes on the head; the first pair 

 being situated immediately over the eyes, and the 

 latter pair over the back of the head : the mouth 

 is wide, and the teeth very slender and sharp : the 

 dorsal fin runs, as in most others of this genus, 

 nearly along the whole length of the back; and 

 the anal is continued from the vent to the tail* 

 The Gattorugine is considered as an eatable fish, 

 and feeds in the same manner as most others of the 

 genus. 



SUPERCILIOUS BLENNY. 



Blennius Superciliosus. B. Jlavescens, rubro maculatus, cirris 



superciliorum palmatis. 

 Yellowish Blenny spotted with red, with palmated supers 



ciliary cirri. 



Blennius superciliosus. B. pinnulis superciliorum palmatis, line a 

 laterali curva. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 441. Block. pL 168. 



This species is of a moderately long and thick 

 form : the head is small ; the eyes rather large, 

 with silvery irides, and immediately over each eye 



