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f route super oculos bicorni ; cornu anteriore distincto, recurvo ; 

 posteriore gibboso-cristiformi -, filament o intermedio i?iconspicuo : 

 brachiis pectoralibus ventralibusque exsertis. 



D. 12 ; A. 7 ; P. 10 ; V. 5 ; C. y±| -f V. 



A single individual only has occurred of this pretty little species, 

 which in the foregoing characters appears distinct enough from all 

 enumerated by MM. Cuv. and Val. ; approaching, perhaps, nearest 

 to Ch. furcipilis, pardalis, or coccineus. It was only one and three- 

 fourths of an inch long, and seven- eighths of an inch deep. The 

 whole fish is strongly scabrous to the touch. 



Fam. Labrid^e. 



Crenilabrus caninus, nob. Synops. 186. 



A most remarkable variety of this fish has the preopercle perfectly 

 entire ; invalidating thus completely the generic character. This 

 state of the species appears permanent, and independent of age or 

 size ; whilst it is wholly unaccompanied by other marks of difference 

 or indications of disease. It is rare comparatively with the normal 

 form. 



Creiiilabrus luscus, nob. in Syn. Mad. Fish 187 ; nee Yarrellii 

 nee Linnsei. 



This also proves distinct from Mr. Couch's Scale-rayed Wrasse 

 (Acantholabrus Couchii, Cuv. and Val. 13. 248), to which, as figured 

 by Yarreli for the Labrus luscus, L. (a true Labrus, according to 

 Valenciennes,) I had formerly referred it. A still nearer ally ap- 

 pears, however, to be Acantholabrus Palloni, Cuv. and Val. 13. 243 

 (Crenilabrus exoletus, Risso, haud Labrus exoletus, L.). From this 

 it differs in the extension up between each of the spines of the dorsal 

 and anal fins of generally four of the large scales into a curious di- 

 stinct and moveable imbricated appendage ; in the large dark spot or 

 patch on the hinder end of the spiny portion of the dorsal fin ; in 

 having two dark spots on each side at the base of the caudal fin, one 

 on the dorsal, and another fainter on the ventral line ; and lastly in 

 the general colour. In the first and last of these four points, it 

 agrees better with Acantholabrus Couchii, Val. (Crenilabrus luscus, 

 Yarr., Brit. Fish. 1. 300) ; but it differs in the other two, is only half 

 the size, and whilst the dorsal and the anal fins have severally one 

 spine less, the dorsal has one soft ray more. 



Labrus reticulatus. 



This fish cannot be at present safely referred to the Ballan Wrasse 

 of British Authors (Labrus maculatus, BL), Yarr. 1. 275; although 



