210 FISHES. ACANTHOPT. Julis. 



the irides yellow ; the dorsal fin straight, the rays extending rather beyond 

 the web, and are thirty-one in number, twenty-two of which appear soft, and 

 are of a yellow colour ; the lore part of the fin a bright blue, tipt with yel- 

 low ; the colour of the head blue, mottled with olivaceous ; the same tints 

 extend to about one-third of the upper part of the back, and below the late- 

 ral line to the tail, which is slightly rounded ; the remainder of the back 

 deep orange, the belly of a lighter shade ; the tail azure ; the anal and ven- 

 tral fins yellow, tipt with blue ; the upper part of the pectoral fin blue ; the 

 lower yellow. This species is said to grow to the length of one foot," iii. 

 341. 



Gen. LXV. JULIS. — Cheeks and gill-covers destitute of 

 scales. 



134. J. vulgaris. — Above fuscous-green: beneath white, 

 with a fulvous dentated stripe on each side ; two fore-teeth 

 longest. 



Labrus Julis, Linn. Syst. i. 476. Don Brit. Fishes, t. xciv — Corn- 

 wall. 

 Length 7 inches. Form elongated. D. T 9 g , P. 12, V. i, A. ,§, C. 13. A 

 specimen procured by Miss Pocock, on the coast of Cornwall, in 1802, was 

 communicated to Mr Donovan. — It is common in the Mediterranean. 



Gen. LXVI. BRAMA. — Teeth slender, numerous ; front 

 abrupt. Breadth of the dorsal and anal fins extended at 

 their commencement. Tail lunate. 



135. B. marina. — Bluish silvery; two teeth in the lower 

 jaw produced. 



B. mar. cauda forcipata, Johnson, Will. Ich. 17- — Toothed Gilt-head, 

 Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. 243. Mont. Lin. Trans, vii. 292 — Sparus Raii, 

 Don. Brit. Fishes, t. xxxvii. — Bare on the English coast. — Occasion- 

 ally in the Frith of Forth. 

 Length upwards of 2 feet, depth about 1 foot ; slender towards the tail. 

 The dorsal and anal fins extended. D. 37, P. 24, V. 7, A. 31, C 25. This 

 species has received by different authors various appellations. It is Sparus 

 Raii of Bloch, S. castaneola of Lacepede, S. Raii and S. castaneola of Shaw, 

 S. niger of Turton, and S. denlatus of Stewart. 



As connected with this section, the Ch^todon noticed in Cornwall by Mr 

 Couch, merits a place, though too imperfectly described, to permit its inser- 

 tion in any of the modern genera into which that group is now divided. 

 " Only one specimen of this genus has come within my notice. This was 

 taken at Looe, swimming alive on the surface of the water, in August 1821 ; 

 and as I have not been able to refer it to any described species, I subjoin a 

 description: It was about 17 inches long, and, exclusive of the dorsal fin, 

 54 inches deep ; the snout was blunt, sloping suddenly above the eyes ; the 

 angle of the mouth depressed ; the teeth numerous, sharp, incurved, four in 

 front of the under jaw very long ; the body deep, thin ; two dorsal fins, the 

 first having flexible rays ; the second long and narrow ; tail very deeply 

 lunated ; the pectorals long ; the ventrals double, or having a wing, by which 

 means it seemed to have four ventral fins ; the anal fleshy, and somewhat 



