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st the middle ; they are longitudinally striated, and the first 
three are more elevated at their root than the others. There 
are no scales at their base. The second dorsal is soft, and 
placed on a ridge. Abdominal fin with the membrane not 
extending to the ends of the soft rays. In Mr. Yarrell’s 
figure the first rays of the dorsal fin are represented as 
serrated ; which was not the case in these specimens ; that 
mark being limited to the first ray of the ventral, which 
is strongly so. 
D. 9, 24. P. 13. V. 1, 5. A. 3, 24. C. 14. 
Colour of the eye bright yellow, and silvery white ; of the 
body a fine crimson, delicately bright, faded into yellow, and 
from thence to a silvery white as it approached the belly. 
Th ere were no lateral bands, as are sometimes described. 
Within a few days after the capture of this quantity of 
these fishes, two others were obtained: and in the week 
ending the 23th of the same month, about an hundred ad- 
ditional specimens were taken, and all the specimens that 
Passed under observation exceeded two hundred. 
GOBIADiE. GOBIES. 
WARRELL’S BLENNY. Btennius galerita, Fleming’s 
Brit. An., p. 207. B. Palmicornis, Jenyns’ Man., p. 380. 
Yarrell’s Br. F., 1st Ed., vol. 1, p. 233. B. Yarrellii, 
Cuv. and Valenciennes. Yarrell’s Br. F., 2nd Ed., p. 263. 
My first specimen of this Blenny was procured in 1841; 
®nd being rare, and the individual of large size, it was de- 
posited in the British Museum. Since that time several 
have come to my hands ; of which two or three were pre- 
8 «nted from Gorran, by Mr. Peach; and a comparative 
Examination of these enables me to point out some variations 
to which this fish is subject, and thus to reconcile the con- 
variety of description by different Naturalists, of which Mr. 
Darrell takes notice. The characters here given are de- 
igned to have reference to Mr. Yarrell’s figure and descrip- 
both in their resemblance and difference. Lips and 
cheeks tumid, under jaw rather the longer ; teeth very 
S! "all, regular, close set; eyes approximate, elevated. Belly 
' J, nid, body lengthened, compressed. Lateral line double, 
j. Ie upper soon becoming obsolete, but having its beginning 
l '°U) a row of pores running hack from the summit of the 
c le ek. Membrane of the dorsal and anal fin bound to the 
^ aiI dal. Colour uniform light brown, covered with fine 
c ale$, each with a paler rim. Between the eyes a slender 
Process ; on the front of the head two, elevated, crowned 
u h a tuft of fibrils; and on the top of the head, above the 
Cfttr e of the eye a more elevated process, which in a fish 
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