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* AREOLATED B LENNY. 



Blennius Lumpenus. B. corpore teretiusculo Jlavicante, areolis 

 dorsalibus fuscis. 0. Fabr. faun. Groenl. p. 151. Lin. Syst. 

 Nat. Gmel.p. 1183. 



Yellowish Blenny with 6ubcylindrie body marked on the 

 back by brown patches. 



A smallish species, of a palish brown colour, 

 whitish beneath, and yellowish towards the hind 

 part: the head is also yellow and narrower than 

 the body: the back marked with brown patches 

 or spots: native of the Mediterranean, inhabiting 

 deep, sandy shores, and concealing itself among 

 fuci, stones, &c. in the manner of the B. Pholis 

 and some others. 



FROG BLENNY. 



Blennius Raninus. B. fuscus, pinnis ventralibus subscxfidis, 



cirro gulari. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 444. 

 Brown Blenny., with obscurely six-cleft ventral fins, and 



gular cirrus. 



Gadus raninus. Mull. Zool. Dan. prodr. No. 35Q. 



Native of the Northern seas, as well as of some 

 of the larger lakes : in habit resembling the Gadus 

 Tau, and may be considered as a kind of inter* 

 mediate species, connecting the genera of Gadus 

 and Blennius. By Cepede it is placed, together 

 with the Gadus Tau, in a distinct genus under the 

 name of Batrachoides. The head is very much 

 depressed, and broader than the body : the irides 



