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Labrus coquus (cook), Gmel. Linn. p. 1297 ; Art. Walb. iii, p. 260 ; Shaw, 

 Zool. iv, p. 5U3 ; Lacep. iii, p. 443 ; Turton, Brit. Fauna, p. 99 ; Flem. Brit. 

 Anim. p. 209 ; Jenyns, Man. p. 396. 



Labrus vittatus, Art. Walb. iii, p. 256. 



Labrus vetula, Bl. t. ccxciii ; Bl. Schn. p. 250 ; Lacep. iii, p. 447 ; Swainson, 

 Fishes, ii, p. 228 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes (Ed. 1) i. p. 284, c. hg. ; Jenyns, Man. 

 p. 395. 



Grammistes variegatus, Bl. Schn. p. 190. 



Spams formosus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. i, pi. xxxi. 



Labrus formos us, Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 512. 



Labrus pavo, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii, p. 299 (not Ich. Nice). 



Labrus lineatus, Bonn. Atl. Ich. p. 113, pi. xcviii, f. 402 ; Risso, Ich. Nice, 

 p. 220. 



Labrus larvatus, Rafin. Caratfc. 38, sp. 101 ; Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, 

 p. 249. 



Striped lorasse, cook or cuckoo wrass, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, iii, p. 34, 

 pi. cxxvii. 



Synonymy of females. 



Labrus cameus, Ascan. Ic. t. xiii ; Bloch, t. cclxxxix ; Bl. Schn. p. 249 ; Yarrell, 

 Brit. Fishes (Ed. 1) i, p. 286, c. fig ; Nilss. Prod. p. 75 ; Parnell, Wern. Mem. 

 vii, p. 258, and Fish. Firth of Forth/ p. 98. 



Tri maculated ivrasse, Pennant, Brit. Zool. (Ed. 1776) iii, p. 248 (Ed. 1812) 

 iii, p. 336. 



Labrus trimaculatus, Gmel. Linn, i, p. 1294 ; Bonn. Atl. Ich. p. 113, pi. xcviii, 

 f. 401 ; Lacep. iii, pp. 435, 488 ; Shaw, Nat. Misc. xix, pi. 786, and Zool. iv, 

 p. 502 ; Donovan, Brit. Fish, iii, pi. xlix ; Turton, Brit. Fauna, p. 99 ; Risso, Ich. 

 Nice, p. 219 ; Cuv. and Val. xiii, p. 58 ; Jenyns, Manual, p. 39(3 ; Thompson, Nat. 

 Hist. Ireland, iv, p. 126 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. (Ed. 2) i, p. 320 (Ed. 3) i, p. 495 ; 

 Guichen, Explor. Alger. Poiss. p. 83. 



Labrus exoletus, Retz. Faun. Suec. p. 335. 



Labrus mixtus, Kroyer, Dan. Fiske, i, p. 496, c. fig. 



Three-spotted wrass, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, iii, p. 36, pi. cxxvii. 



Yarrell in his third edition of British Fishes observes that this is the female 

 of L. mixtus. 



Varieties of female. 



Labrus bimaculatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 477 ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1289 ; Bonn. 

 Atl. Ich. p. 112 ; Lacep. iii, p. 439 ; Bl. Schn. p. 261 ; Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 502 ; 

 Risso, Ich. Nice, p. 227 ; Turton, Brit. Fauna, p. 99 ; Jenyns, Manual, p. 396. 



Bimaculated, ivrasse, Pennant, Brit. Zool. (Ed. 1776) iii, p. 247 (Ed. 1812) iii, 

 p. 355. 



Labrus quadrimaculatus, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii, p. 302. 



(Monstrosity.) 



Labrus vetula, Yarrell, Brit. Fish. (Ed. 1) i, p. 284, c. fig. ; Jenyns, Manual, 

 p. 395 (not Bloch). 



Acantholabrus Yarrellii, Cuv. and Val. xiii, p. 250 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. (Ed. 2) 

 i, p. 339 (Ed. 3) i, p. 516 ; AVhite, Catal. p. 25. 



Sea-wife, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, iii, p. 37. 



Nilsson (iv, p. 273) first suggested that this fish was a monstrosity of L. mixtus 

 in which three of the soft rays had become transformed into spines. The type 

 appears to have been lost. 



B. v, D. (jgg^, P. 17, V. 1/5, A. r ^ TVJ C. 13-15, L. 1. 50-60, L. tr. 

 5-7/17-21, Vert. 18/21. 



Length of head 3^ to 3f, of caudal fin 7| to 8, height of body 4j to 4f in the 

 total length. Eye diameter 5^ in the length of the head, 2 to 2j diameters 

 from the end of the snout, and 1\ apart. Body rather compressed, snout 



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