76 LABRID^. 



6. Adiilt. English coast. Presented by Messrs. Oliffe & Cole. 



c-f. Adnlt : stuffed and skins. British coast. 



ff. Adult. Dahnatia. 



h. Adult. 



i. Adult: skeleton. 



Var. (3. Body nearly uniform ; the lower part of nearly the entire 

 spinous dorsal black ; anal and caudal fins with blue margins. 



k-l. Adidt: stuffed. 

 m. Adult. 



Var. y. Yellow : head, back of the trunk, and anterior portion of 

 the spinous dorsal fin blackish -violet ; head with some irregular 

 blue streaks. Vertical fins and pectorals with blue margins. (Labrus 

 larvatus, Lowe.) 



n-o. Fine specimens. Lisbon. Presented by the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 

 p. Fine specimen. Cannes. Presented by Th. Giinther, M.D. 



Var. ti. Greenish : head, back of the trunk, and anterior portion 

 of the spinous dorsal brownish, the former with irregular bluish 

 lines ; a broad brown longitudinal band to the base of the caudal 

 fin. Vertical fins with blue margins. 

 q. Fine specimen. London market. Presented by Messrs. J. & C. 



Grove. 

 r-u. Adult and half-grown : stuffed and skins. Plymouth. 

 V, HaK-grown: skin. From Mr. Yarrell's Collection as Labrus 



lineatvis. 



Females. 



Var. e. Like var. d, but with two or three rather indistinct dark 

 spots on the back of the tail, 

 tt'-.a;. Half-grown : skins. Plymouth. From Mr. Yarrell's Collection. 



y. Adult : stuffed. EUlough, Ireland. 



Var. ^. Red or reddish, with one to three large black spots on 

 the back of the taU ; a blackish spot anteriorly on the spinous dorsal 

 fin ; vertical fins edged with blue. 

 z. Half-grown : stuffed. Plymouth. Presented by Lieut. H. F. 



Spence, R.N. 

 a. Adult: skin. South Devon. From Mr. Yarrell's Collection. 

 /3. Half-grown. Swansea. Mus. Leach, 

 y. Adult : stxiffed. English coast. 



5. Fine specimen. Cannes. Pi-esented by Th. Giinther, M.D. 

 e. Half-grown. Malta. Presented by Capt. Strickland, R.N. 

 ^. Adult. Dalmatia. 



T). Adidt. Adiiatic. 



6. Half- grown. Mediterranean. 

 I, K. Half-grown. 



X. Half- grown: stuffed. 



ft. Young : skin. From Mr. Yarrell's Collection. 

 For description of Skeleton, see p. n9. 



