338 LABRID.E. 



larger and more prominent, rather incurved. Eye mo- 

 derately large ; anterior gill-plate serrate ; six gill-rays ; body 

 and gill-covers with large scales ; lateral line nearer the back, 

 descending with a sweep opposite the termination of the 

 dorsal fin, thence backward straight. Dorsal fin twenty-one 

 firm rays, eight soft rays ; the fin connected with the latter, 

 expanded, reaching to the base of the tail : pectorals round, 

 fourteen rays ; ventral six rays, the outermost simple, stout, 

 firm, tipped ; between these fins a large scale. Anal fin, 

 six firm, eight soft rays, the soft portion of the last expanded. 

 Tail round, fifteen rays ; between each ray of the dorsal, 

 anal, and caudal fins, is a process formed of firm, elongated, 

 imbricated scales. Colour a uniform light brown, lighter on 

 the belly ; upper eye-lid black ; at the upper edge of the 

 base of the caudal fin a dark brown spot. Pectorals yellow ; 

 all the other fins bordered with yellow." The number of 

 fin-rays are here repeated for the sake of uniformity. 



D. 21 + 8 : P. 1 4 : V. 1 + 5 : A. 6 + 8 : C. 15. 



" I have seen only one specimen of this Wrasse, of the 

 size here mentioned, which was taken in the month of Fe- 

 bruary 1830, at the end of a very cold season." 



Not the Labrus luscus of Linnseus, according to M. Va- 

 lenciennes, which has only three spines in the anal fin. 



