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Some of them are taken in the northern seas, such 

 as the Lutj anus rupestris, Bl. 250 ; fawn-coloured, with 

 clouded, blackish, vertical bands. Lutjanus Norvegi- 

 cus, id. 256 ; brownish, irregularly spotted and mar- 

 bled with deep brown. Labrus melops; orange, spotted 

 with blue ; a black spot behind the eye, pi. xxi. f. 1. 

 Labrus exoletus, or L. palloni, Risso ; remarkable for 

 the five spines of its anal \ 



The Mediterranean produces a great number which 

 are decorated with the most beautiful colours. The 

 most splendid is the Labrus lapina, Forsk. ; silvery, 

 with three broad longitudinal bands formed of vermi- 

 lion dots, yellow pectorals, the ventrals blue, &c. 2 



They abound also in the seas of hot climates 3 ; and 

 several species, hitherto left among the labri, should 

 be placed here. 



1 Add Lab. gibbus, Perm. xlvi. copied, Encyc. 403. Lutj. 

 virescens, Bl. 254. 1. 



2 Risso describes several in his first edition under the name of 

 Lutjanus; in the second he adopts our genus Crenilabrus, and 

 carries the number of species to twenty-eight ; but all his species 

 are not distinct, and his synonymes are sometimes uncertain. His 

 species should be compared with those of Brunnich, Bloch, &c. 

 The Lab. venosus, Brunn. L. fuscus, Brunn. L. unimaculatus, 

 Brunn. Lutjanus rostratus, Bl. 254. 2, perhaps the Cr. tinea, Risso. 

 L. 5. maculatus, Bl. 291. 2, is the Crenil. Roissal. Risso, Lutj. 

 bidens, Bl. 251. 1. L. Mediterranevs, Brunn. Lab. rubens, 

 Brunn. L. perca, Brunn. Lab. spalatensis, Br. Lab. tinea, Brunn. 

 Lab. ocellatus, Forsk ; or Olivaceus, Brunn, &c. 



3 At the head of the list should be the Lutjanus verres, Bl. 255., 

 the same as his Bodianus bodianus, 223., and as the Pcrro Colorado, 



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