70 LABRID^. 



the palatine to which the maxillary is joined is much produced 

 forward. 



The proportion of the vertebrae is very characteristic: the ab- 

 dominal portion is composed of eighteen and the caudal of twenty-one 

 vertebrae — the length of the former being to that of the latter as 

 1:1-15. 



1. Labrus maculatus. 



The BaUan Wrasse. 



Labrus bei-gylta, Ascan. Ic. tab. 1 ; Cuv. fy Val. xiii. p. 20 ; Yarr. Brit. 



Fish. i. p. 275, 2nd edit. i. p. 311, 3rd edit. i. p. 482. 

 maculatus, Bl. vi. p. 17. taf. 294 ; Bl. Schn. p. 250 ; Fries ock 



Ekstr. Skand. Fisk. p. 43. tab. 2 ; Jen. Man. p. 391 ; Parn. Wern. 



3Iem. vii. p. 256, and Fish. Firth of Forth, p. 96 ; Niks. Prodr. p. 74, 



and Skatid. Faun. iv. p. 261. 



aper, Befz. Faun. Suec. p. 335. 



baUan, Art. Walh. iii. p. 259 ; Bl. Schn. p. 252 ; Lacep. iii. p. 513. 



Ballan Wrasse, Perm. Brit. Zool iii. p. 216. pi. 44, and edit. 1812, iii. 



p. 334. pi. 55. 

 Vieille, Duham, Piches, iii. sect. iv. p. 34. pi. 6. fig. 1. 

 Labrus berg-galt, Miill. Zool. Dan. Prodr. p. 46. 



neustrise, Lacep. iii. p. 522. 



tancoides, Lacep. iii. p. 501. 



tinea, Shato, Nat. Misc. xi. pi. 426, and Zool. iv. p. 499. pi. 72; 



Donov. Brit. Fish. iv. p. 83. 



ballanus, Shaiv, Zool. iv. p. 398. 



balanus, Flein. Brit. An. p. 209. 



lineatus, Donov. Brit. Fish. iv. pi. 74 ; Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 99 ; 



Flem. Brit. An. p. 209; Jmi. Man. p. 392 ; Yarr. Brit. Fish. edit. 1. 



i. p. 279. 



comubiensis, Couch, Trans. Limi. Soc. xiv. p. 80, 



variabilis, Thomps. Nat. Hist. Jrel. iv. p. 120. 



Youtig. 



Labrus pusiUus, Jenyns, Catal. Brit. Vert. p. 25, and Mati. p. 392; 



Yarrell, Brit. Fish. edit. 2. i. p. 330. 

 Crenilabriis midtidentatus, TJiomps. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 56, and 



Maff. Zool.^Bot. ii. p. 449. pi. 13, and Ann. S^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1839, 



ii. p. 418. 

 pusUlus, WJiite, Catal. Brit. Fish. p. 24 ; Yarr. Brit. Fish. 3rd 



edit. i. p. 506. 



D. ^-^^^^ A. ^. L. lat. 45. L. transv. 6-7/14. Vert. 19/19*. 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is con- 

 tained thrice and three-fourths in the total. The width of the inter- 

 orbital space is two-thirds of the extent of the snout, which is one- 

 third of the length of the head. Ground- coloiu' bluish-green or 

 reddish-brown, more or less distinctly reticulated with yellow or 

 orange-red ; vertical fins bluish-green, sometimes spotted ; pectorals 

 and ventrals orange-red. 



European coasts. Mediterranean. North-west coast of Africa. 



a-c. Adult : skins and stuifed. Fii-th of Forth. From Dr. Pamcll's 

 Collection. 



* Valenciennes states 20 vertebroe, an error copied by Yarrell. 



