PLATE LXXXVI. 
tive of the Southern parts of Europe; Gronovlus received it from the 
Cape of good Hope, and according to Pennant, it was discovered to 
be a Bnttsh fish on the coast of Anglesea. It appears to be one of 
the most local and uncommon of our littoral fishes, and has much 
the same habits as Blennius Pholis, the smooth Blenny. 
^ h,s species seldom attains to a greater length than six or eight 
mches, the colours are variable in different specimens according to 
most authors. In general, however, the back and sides are an inter- 
mixture of reddish, and cinereous, marked transversely with irregular 
waves o brown, and the lower parts white and silvery. The head of 
this fish IS rather small in proportion, with the eyes remarkably pro- 
minent, and of a fine scarlet colour, and the palmated membranes on 
, the head red. The body is rather compressed on the sides. The 
anterior half of the lateral line is double, its lower limb extending in a ' 
straight direction from the gills to the tail, and midway between this' 
and the back is an arched lateral line originating at the hind part of 
t e head, and curving down to the former, with which it is united a 
bttle behind the tip of the pectoml fin. In our specimen the first 
dorsal fin contains thirty-two rays: pectoral fin thirteen rays; ventral 
wo rays of nearly equal length, with a very small lateral appendage : 
the anal fin are twenty rays, and in the tail twelve: the rays 
o tie tai are branched, all the rest are simple, or undivided. 
