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size, and rounded: ventral small, and didactyle: 

 the first eleven rays of the dorsal fin shorter and 

 softer than the rest : the rays of the anal fin bent 

 backwards at their tips : both anal and dorsal fins 

 join the tail, which is of a rounded shape. This 

 species was discovered by Mr. Bosc, by whom it 

 was communicated to the Count de Cepede. 



GUNNEL BLENNY. 



Blennius Gilnellus. B. fusco-Jlavescens, fusco-punctatus, pinna 



dorsali ocellis circiter decern nigris. 

 Yellowish-bfown Blenny, with deeper specks, and about 



ten ocellated black spots in the dorsal fin. 

 Blennius Gunnellus. B. pinna dorsali ocellis decern nigris. Lin. 



Syst. Nat. p. 443. 

 Butter-Fish. Will. p. 115. Spotted Blenny. Penn. Brit 



Zool. 3. pi. 96. Bloch, pi. 71./. 1* 



This species is an inhabitant of the Baltic, Me- 

 diterranean, and Northern seas, and grows to the 

 length of about nine or ten inches : the body is of 

 a long and very compressed form ; the head small ; 

 the lower jaw longer than the upper, and both 

 furnished with a row of small teeth: but what 

 principally distinguishes this fish is a row of mode- 

 rately distant, round, black spots, with paler circles, 

 disposed throughout the whole length of the dorsal 

 fin, which is shallow, and reaches from the top of 

 the head to the tail : the pectoral fins are very small 

 and rounded, and the ventral most extremely small, 

 each consisting of only two short thick rays : the 



