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more vertical bands of a turquoise blue ; a black spot 

 on the pectoral ; tail shaped like a crescent. One of 

 the most beautiful fishes of the Mediterranean. 



Hot climates produce numerous species of this 

 fish, most of which are splendidly and variously co- 

 loured. 



Some of them have a rounded or truncated caudal 1 . 



The first dorsal rays of others are drawn out into 

 filaments 2 . 



1 Species with a round or truncated tail. Labre parterre, Lacep. 

 ITT. xxix. 2, the same as the Echiquier, id. p. 493. L. trilobe, id. 

 III. iv. 3. L. tenioure, id. III. xxix. 1, the same as his Spare 

 hemisphere, III. xv. 3, and probably as his Spare brachion, III. 

 xviii. 3. L. ceinture, id. III. xxviii. 1. Labrus Brasiliensis, Bl. 

 280. L. macrolepidotus, Bl. 284. 2. L. guttatus, Bl. 287. 2. L. 

 cyanocephalus, Bl. 286. L. malopterus, Bl. 285. L. chloropterus, 

 Bl. 288. L. bivittatus, 284. 1. Julis croiaphus, Cuv., Parra. 

 xxxvii. 1. L. albovittatus, Kcehlr. Nov. Com. Pet. ix. 458, and 

 Encyc. 399. L. viola, Cuv., Russ. ii. 120. L. margaritifcrus, 

 Cuv. ; or Gir. Labiche, Voy. Freycin. Zool. pi., f. 3. L. omatus, 

 Carmich. Lin. Trans. XII. xxvii. 



2 The Girelle Gaymard, Voy. Freycin. pi. liv. which is also the 

 Sparus crelus, Forst. and Renard. part I. pi. ii. No. 11, and part II. 

 160. N.B. The coris of M. de Lacepede, established by that natu- 

 ralist from the drawings of Commerson, have turned out to be fishes 

 of the present genus with truncated tails, the artist having neglected 

 to express the separation of the operculum from the preoperculum. 

 The Coris angule, III. iv. 2, appears to be the Labrus malapterus, 

 and the Coris aigrette, III. iv. 1, must be closely allied to the 

 Girelle Gaymard. M. de Lacepede has also named Hologymnoses, 

 some of these fishes, in which the scales of the body, smaller than 

 usual, are concealed during life by a thick epidermis ; but the scales 



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