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Show 174 PISCES. and in both sexes, which appears destined for the purposes of coi. tion. We divide them as follows: BLENNIUS, Cuv. Long, equal, and closely set teeth, forming but a single and regu. Jar range in each jaw, terminated behind, in some species, by a longer and hooked tooth. The head is obtuse, the muzzle short, and the fore. head vertical; the intestines broad and short. Most of them have a fimbriated appendage on each brow, and several have another on each temple. Several species of this subdivision are taken along the coast of France; one of the most remarkable is the Bl. ocellaris, Bl. 167, 1. The dorsal bilobate, its anterior lobe elevated and marked with a round and black spot, surrounded with a white circle and a black one. Bl. tentacularis, Brunn.; Bl. 167, 2, under the name Bl. gallo· rugine. The dorsal even, four filaments on the brows; a black spot between the fourth and fifth rays. Bl. gattorugine, L.; Will. II, 2, and Bl. 162, 1, 2, , under the name of Bl. fasciatu.s. But two filaments; dorsal almost even; marked with clouded and oblique brown bands. Bl. palmicornis, Cuv.; Penn. Cop. Encycl. Method., f. 111, under the name of gattorugine. The dorsal even; the append· age over the eye fimbriated.( I) The sur-ocular fimbriated appendages are hardly visible in others, but they have a membranous prominence on the vertex which dilates and becomes red in the nuptial season. Some of them are found in European seas. Such are, Bl. galerita, L., Randel, 204; Bl. pavo, Riss. The dorsal even; spotted and streaked with blue; a black ocellated spot be· hind the eye. Bl. rubriceps, Riss. Three first rays of the dorsal elevated, forming a red point; top of the head of the same colour. Others again-the PnoLxs,(2) Arted., have neither panache nor crest. One of them, a very small fish, is common on the coast of France. Bl. ~holis, L. BI.; 71, 2. Profile vertical; the dorsal slightly emargmate, dotted and marbled with brown and blackish. (1) Add, Bl. cornutus, L.;-Bl.pilicornis, Cuv.,pumaru, Marcgr.165, the second figure, but the first description, &.c. (2) Plwlia, the Greek name of a fish always enveloped in mucus. Add, Bl. ca· ~oma, Schn., 37, 2;-Gadua aalaria8, Forsk, p. 22. ACANTHOPTERYGII. 175 We distinguish from these Blennies, properly so termed, by the name of MYXODEs, Cuv. Species with an elongated head, a pointed muzzle projecting in front of the mouth, and a single range of teeth, as in the Blennies but without canines;( 1) and by that of ' SALARIAs, Cu v. Species whose teeth, also forming a single range and placed close to each other, are compressed laterally, hooked at the end, inexpressibly slender, and immensely numerous. They move, in the recent specimen, like ~he keys of a harpsichord. Their head, strongly compressed above, 1s very broad below; their lips are thick and fleshy, their profile is completely vertical, and their spirally convoluted intestines are longer and thinner than in the Common Blenny. The only species known are from the Indian Ocean.(2) We call CLINus, Cuv.(3) Those with short pointed teeth, scattered in several ranges, the first of which is the largest. Their muzzle is less obtuse than in the two preceding subgenera, their stomach wider ami their intestines shorter. In s~me: the first rays of the dorsal form a point separated by an emargmatwn from the rest of the fin;( 4) small fimbriated appendages on the eye-brows. There are even some of them in which the first rays are altogether forward, and seem to form a pointed and radiated crest on the vertex.( 5) In others again, the dorsal is continuous and even.(6) (1) The species are new. (2~ Sal. qua:Jripinnis, Cuv., which is the Blenniua gattorugine, Forsk., p. 23;Bl. mmus, SuJef. Act. Petrop. 1779, part II, pl. vi;-the .lllticua, or Saltator of Co~mers., Lacep., IT, p. 479, and several new species. I have every reason to beheve that to this subgenus we should also refer the Bl. edentulua, Bl., Schn., or the truncatua of Forster, notwithstanding it is said to be without teeth. (3) Clinu.s, the modern Greek term for the B1enny. (4) Bl. mustelaris, L., Mus. Ad. Fred. xxxi, 3;-Bl. auperciliosm, Bl. 168;-Bl. argenteus, Risso. N. B. The Blennie pointilU, Lacep. II, xii, 3, appears to me to be a badly preserved specimen of the auperciliosm. (5) Bl.fenestratus, Forst., Bl., Schn., p. 173. Bl(6) Bl. spadiceus, Schn., Seb. m, xxx, f. B;~Bl. aeuminatus, Id., Seb., Ib.l;, punctatus, Ott., Fabr., Soc. Hist. Nat. Copenh. vo1. II, fasc. II, pl. x, f. 3;- \ |