1. LABEUS. 75 



Labms variegatus, L Gm. i. p. 1294; Lacip. iii. pp. 442, 508; Donov. 



^rit Ff. 1. pl. 21; Risso Ichth. Nice, p. 229; Turt. Brit. Faun. 



p. 99; Je,uj7is, Man. p. 394; Thomps. Nat. Hist. Irel. iv p 124 

 — coquus .ir^TTfl/i. iii. p. 200; Lacep. iii. p. 443; Tu,-t. Brit. 



Faun. p. 99 ; Flem. Brit. Atmti. p. 209. "^ ^ ' 



vittatus, Art. Walb. iii. p. 256 



— — vetula, Bl. taf. 293; Bl. Sclm. p. 250; Lacep. iii. p. 447. 

 tTi-ammistes vane-iatiis, Bl. ScJm. p. 190 

 ypanis fonuosus, Sliaw, Nat. Misc. i. pl. 31 (cop. Ascan.). 

 l^abrus torniosus, S/iaw, Zool. iv. p. 512. 



pavo, Eisso Fur. Merid. iii. p. 299 (not Ichth. Nice\ 



Imeatus, Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 220. 



larvatus, Loive, Proc. Zool. Sac. 1850, p. 249. 



Fe77iale. 



Labms cameus Ascan Ic. tab. 13; Bl. taf. 289; Bl. Schn. p. 249- 



Parn. Wern. Me^n. vii. p. 258, and Fish. Firth of Forth, p 98 ' 



— - trimaculatus, L. Gm. i. p. 1294; Lacep. iii. p. 488; Shatv 'Nat 



■ M^c XIX. pl. 7SQ-,mso, Ichth. Nice, p.'219; ^Dono^. B^' S^. 



i>/«« p 396; larr.Brd. Fish. i. p. 286, 2nd edit. i. p. 320, 3rd edU 



'■ ^Vi^ 'n Z"""^';"- ^•^^''"'■- ^'^'''- ^- '■ ' ^^''"'i'^'- ^^<^t- Hik Irel. iv 

 p. 12b; nelaroche,Am>. 3Ius. 1809, xiv. p. 281 (air-bladder). 



exoletus, feni., Petz. Faun. Suec. p. 335 



Tnmaculated Wrasse, Pe>«/.. Brit. Zool iii. p. 218. pl. 46, and edit, 

 lolz, m. p. 33b. pl. 56. 



Varietxj of Female. 



Labrus bimaculatus, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 477; Bl. Schn. p. 261 ■ Tzirt 



Bnt. Faun. p. 99; Jen. Man. p. 396 ^ ' 



Bima|idated Wrasse, P«i«. ^n<. z«o^. iii. p. 247, and edit. 1812, iii. 



Labrus quadrimacidatus, Risso, Fur. Merid. iii. p. 302. 



^- rrrr ^- n- I'- l^t. 55, L. transv. 7/20. Vert. 18/21. 



The height of the body is contained four times and a third or 

 four times and a quarter in the total length, the length of the head 

 three times and a third to three times and a half. The width of 

 the interorbital space is contained once and two-thirds or twice in 

 the length of the snout Snout elongate, its length being consider- 

 ably more than one-third of that of the head. Cauda! and anal 

 and sometimes the other fins with a more or less broad blue margin • 

 a black or blmsh-black oblong spot or band along the base of the 

 anterior dorsa spines. Male with blue streaks or a blackish band 

 aiong the body sometimes nearly uniform. Female with two or 

 three large black blotches across the back of the tail 



Coasts of Europe. 



Males. 



Var a Body with irregular blue longitudinal streaks ; the lower 

 part of the anterior half or third of the spinous dorsal black ; anal 

 and caudal fins with blue margins. 



a. AduU: stuffed. Plymouth. Presented by Lieut. H. F. Spence, 



