78 LABRIBiE. 



1. Crenilabrus pavo. 



Pavo, Salv. fig. 233; AMroj. i. cap. 4. p. 29; Willughhy, tab. x. 3 (not 



descr.). 

 ? Tuidus, Bellon. p. 160 ; Rondel, iv. cap. 6. pp. 174, 175. 

 Paoii de mer, Belon, Hist. nat. Poiss. etrang. p. 18. 

 Tardus viilgatissimus, etc., Willughhy, p. 319 ; Ray, p. 136. 

 Labrus pavo, Briinn. Ichthyol. Mass. p. 49 (not i.). 

 ? Labrus lapina, Forsk. p. 36; Bl. Schn. p. 260. 

 Lutjanus linckii, Bloch, iv. p. 127. taf. 252. 

 Labrus violaceus, Bl. Schn. p. 248. 



Lutjanus geoffi'oj'ius, Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 261. pi. 8. tig. 25. 

 ? Lutjanus lapina, Risso, I. c. p. 262. 

 Crenilabrus geoffi'oi, Risso, Bur. Merid- iii. p. 314. 

 lapina, Risso, I. c. p. 313 (?) ; Nordni. in Demid. Voy. Russ. Merid. 



iii. p. 451. pi. 19 ; Kessler, Bull. Soc. Nat. 3Iosc. 1859, 2. p. 444. ^ 

 Labrus polychrous. Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-As. iii. p. 262. 

 Crenilabrus pavo, Cut: ^ Val. xiii. p. 149. pi. 372 ; Guichen. Explor. 



Alger. Poiss. p. 85. 



B.5. D.^l^HiM. A.-^^^. L.lat.35. L. transv. |§\ 

 Vert. 15/18. 



The height of the body is contained thrice and a half or thrice 

 and two-thii'ds in the total length. Cheek with four or five series 

 of small scales, the scaly part below the eye being higher than the 

 orbit. The length of the snout is more than one-third of that of 

 the head. The serrature of the praeoperculum disappears in old 

 specimens. Coloration variable : ground- coloiu' green or brownish, 

 with longitudinal series of blue and red (in spirits brownish) dots ; 

 two of these series form the edges of a light band running fi'om the 

 eye to the caudal fin ; generally a dark blotch above the axil ; 

 vertical fins dotted with blue, pectorals uniform yellow or transparent. 

 Other specimens have the colours less bright and are more uniform. 



Mediterranean ; Black Sea. 



o. Adult. Gibraltar. Presented by Dr. P. L. Sclater. 



h, c. Fine specimens. Cannes. Presented by Th. Giinther, M.D. 



d-e. Fine specimens. Dalmatia. 



/, g-7i. Adidt and half-grown. Trieste. From the Berlin Museum. 



i-m. Half-grown. Malta. From the Berlin Museum. 



n, 0, p. Adult. Egypt. From ISIr. Petherick's Collection. 



q. Adiilt. Mediterranean. From the Berlin Museum. 



r. Fine specimen. From the Haslar Museum. 



s, t-ti, V. Adult. 



w. Sixteen inches long : stuffed. 



X. Adult : skin. From Mr. YarreU's Collection. 



y. Adult : skeleton. Nice. From the Berlin Museum. 



For a long time I thought that two or three species were confounded 

 imder the name of Cr. pavo, and that their distinctive characters 

 might be found in the colours, in the numbers of the soft dorsal and 

 anal rays, and in the number of scales above the lateral line. A 

 further examination, however, of numerous examples has shown me 



