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the scaly part below the eye being not much higher than the orbit ; 

 the length of the snout is one-third of that of the head. The soft 

 dorsal fin with two black spots at the base. Back with five dark, 

 indistinct cross-bands. Prseorbital and operculum with a dark spot ; 

 a dark streak below the orbit descending obliquely forwards to the 

 chin ; body with some irregular dark spots ; sometimes a dark spot 

 on the middle of the base of the caudal fin. 

 Mediterranean. Black Sea. 



a, h. Adult. Mediterranean. From the Haslar Collection. 



c. Adult. Dalmatia. 



d-e. Adult. Trieste. From the Berlin Museiim. 



/, g. Adult, half-grown, and young : many specimens. Malta. 



h. Adult : stuffed. Malta. 



i. Adult. Cannes. Presented by Th. Giinther, M.D. 



h-l. Adult. Alexandria. From the Berlin Museum. 



m. Adult. Cadiz. From the Haslar Collection. 



n. Adult. Lisbon. 



o,p. Adult. 



Varietji : Dorsal fin with fourteen spines ; the spots are of an in- 

 tense black and rather numerous on the lower half of the body ; 

 praeoperculum with three oblique black streaks. 



q. Adult. Malta. From the Haslar Collection : has been in chlo- 

 ride of zinc. 

 r. Adult: skeleton. 



Crenilahrus quinqitemacuIatuK, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii. p. 324, 

 Cuv. <fe Val. xiii. p. 212, is another variety, Avith three other black 

 spots on the base of the spinous dorsal fin, and two on the anal fin. 



7. Crenilabrus griseus. 



Labnus, no. 75, Brihin. Pise. Mass. p. 58. 

 Labrus griseus, L. Gm. Syst. Xat. i. p. 1296. 



cinereus, Lacdp. iii. p. 487. 



fuscus, Pall. Zoof/r. Ross.- As. iii. p. 266 ; Pathke, Fauna der 



Krym, p. 340. 

 ? Labrus trenatus. Pall. Zoof/r. Poss.-As. iii. p. 270. 

 Lutjanus cinereus, Pisso, Ichth. Nice, p. 200. pi. 8. fig. 26. 



cottse, Pisso, Ichth. Nice, p. 282. 



masse, Pisso, Ichth. Nice, p. 274. 



Crenilabrus massa, Pisso, Eur. Mirid. iii. p. 326 ; Cuv. <§• Val. xiii. 



p. 202. 



cottre, Pisso, Eur. MSrid. iii. p. 315 ; Cuv. ^- Val. xiii. p. 204. 



frenatus, Benii. Proc. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 90. 



? Crenilabrus frsenatus, Cuv. ^- Val. xiii. p. 204 ; Nordm. in Demid. 



Vol/. Puss. Merid. iii. p. 457. 

 Crenilabrus fuscus, Cuv. ^- Val. xiii. p. 219 ; Nordm. I. c. p. 455 ; 



Kessler, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1859, 2. p. 446. 

 pusilhis, Nordm. I. c. p. 454, Poiss. pi. 18. fig. 2. 



D.^. A.|-. L. lat. 32. L. transv. 3/9. Yert. 1417. 



The height of the body is two-sevenths of the total length. Cheek 



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