Class IV. BIMACULATED WRASSE. 24? 



The tail was rounded at the end ; at the bot- 

 tom, for about a third part of the way, between 

 each ray was a row of fcales. 



The color in general was yellow, fpotted with 



orange. 



Labrus bimaculata. L. pinna Sciama bimaculata. Mus. Ad. 11 7-^ IMA " 



dorfali ramentacea, macula Fred. I. 66. tab. XXXI. culatejd. 



fufca in latere medio, et Jig. 66. 

 ad caudam. Lin. fyft. 477. 



MR. Brunnkh obferved this fpecias at Pen- 

 zance 9 and referred me to Linnaus's defcrip- 

 tion of it in the Mufeum Ad. Fred, where it is de- 

 fcribed under the name of Sciana Bimaculata. 



The body is pretty deep, and of a light color, Descri: 

 marked in the middle on each fide with a round 

 brown fpot; on the upper part of the bafe of the 

 tail is another : the lateral line is incurvated. 



The branchioftegous rays are fix in number*: 

 the firft fifteen rays of the dorfal fin are fpiny 9 the 



* Linnaus, in his laft edition, has removed this fpecies 

 from the genus of Sciana, to that of Labrus, though it does 

 not agree with the laft in his number of branchioftegous 

 rays. 



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