plate lxxix. 
what transverse marks of sHvery .,hite. changeable to yellowish: 
the belly silvery, and fins orange spotted with greenish. One pe- 
culiarity in those fishes we could not avoid observing j throughout all 
the varieties, though so stiikingly dissimilar, in other respects the 
eyes were scarlet, the lips white, or slightly tinged with reddish, and 
theextremity ofeveryray in the anal fin perfectly white. The posterior 
nostrils in all the specimens were tubular and fringed with small fibres, 
or dilations, as Bloch observes, and which appears to be one of the 
most invariable characters of the species, though it was not so greatly 
protruded in any of the specimens we examined as the drawing of his 
fish represents. The teeth are ofa slender form, long, and set remark- 
ably close andeven. Those fishes are so tenacious oflife, thatseveral 
of them lived more than thirty hours out of the sea. They subsist 
on small crabs, testaceous vermes, and other worms We also 
discovered this local species of Blennius on the coast of Pembroke- 
shire *. 
^ The general size of this fish varies from three, to four, or five 
inches. The dorsal fin, which extends from the nape close to the 
tad, is nearly divided into two parts, and contains in our selected 
specimen thirty-one rays : the pectoral fin twelve rays ; ventral two : 
anal twenty: and caudal thirteen. 
* Vide Donor. Tour South Walei, A.D. 1804. 
