LARRIDE. 



ACANTHOPTERYGIL 



LABRWJ:. 



THE RED WRASSE. THREE-SPOTTED 



WRASSE. 



DOUBLY-SPOTTED WRASSE. 



Lalrus trimaculittus, GMEL. Cuv. et VAI.ENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. xiii. 



p. 58. 



,, corneas, BLOCK, pt. ix. pi. 289. 



,, ,, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 256. 



,, trimaculatus, Ti-imaculated Wrasse, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 336, 



pi. 56. 



,, ,, ,, ,, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 49. 



,, ,, Three-spotted and Doubly- spotted Wrasse, of Mr. Couch's MS. 



,, quadrimaculatus, Risso, Hist. t. iii. p. 302, sp. 199. 

 ,, trimaculatus, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 396. 



THE RED WRASSE is a well-marked species, first de- 

 scribed by Ascanius, and appears to be occasionally met with 

 at various places on our coast. Pennant's fish was taken 

 on the coast of Anglesey. Mr. Donovan, Colonel Mon- 

 tagu, and Mr. Couch, have each described from specimens 

 obtained in Devonshire and Cornwall. Mr. Neill has re- 

 corded his notice of several taken in the Firth of Forth ; and 

 naturalists situated still farther north include it among the 

 fishes of the Baltic and coast of Norway. Two specimens 

 in my own collection, one of six inches in length, prepared 



