84 LABRID^. 



with two series of scales, the scaly part below the eye being equal in 

 height to the orbit. The length of the snout is one-third of that of 

 the head. A black spot anteriorly on the spinous dorsal ; a black 

 spot which is frequently absent on the lower part of the base of the 

 caudal fin ; a brown band runs from above the orbit, along the 

 lateral line, to the back of the tail ; another from the lower half of 

 the orbit towards the black caudal spot ; the interspace between the 

 two bands is of a light colour ; a brown streak round the lower part 

 of the orbit and across the chin ; sides of the body and vertical fins 

 with brown dots. 



Mediterranean, Black Sea. 



a. Adult. Trebizond. From the Collection of the Zoological So- 

 ciety. — Typo of C. frenatiis, Benn. 

 b-c, d-e. Adult and half-grown. Dalmatia. 

 /. Adult. Trieste. From the Berlin Museum. 

 g, h. Adult. Cadiz. From the Haslar Museum. 

 i. Adult: skeleton. Cadiz. From the Haslar Museum. 



8. Crenilabrus staitii. 



? Labrus simus, Pall. Zoogr. iii. p. 271. 



Crenilabrus staitii, Nordm. in Demid. Voy. Muss. M^rid. iii. p. 452. 

 pi. 18. fig. 1. 



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

 Greenish-olive, variegated with brown and whitish ; a brown streak 

 from the eye to the upper lip, and another to the lower jaw ; body 

 with two brown longitudinal bands ; two dark spots at the root of 

 the caudal, the lower of which is the larger and edged with black ; 

 vertical and ventral fins with small spots ; dorsal without black spot 

 anteriorly. (Nordm.) 



Odessa. 



Kessler considers this fish to be a variety of C. ftiscus, Pall., or 

 C. griseus, Gm, 



9. Crenilabrus baillonii. 



Crenilabrus baillonii, Cuv. ^- Val. xiii. p. 191. pi. 873 ; Cuv. Rkgne 

 Anim. HI. Poiss. pi. 87. fig. 3. 



D. 1^. A. ^. L. lat. 35. L. transv. if. 



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

 times and a half in the total length. Cheek with two or three series 

 of scales ; the length of the snoiit is one-third of that of the head. The 

 soft dorsal and the anal with two black or blackish spots at the base. 

 Back with five or six dark cross-bars, more distinct in young indivi- 

 duals. Operculum without dark spot ; base of the pectoral black. 



Coasts of Lisbon and Mogador ; British Channel. 



a-h. Fine specimens. Lisbon. Presented by the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 

 c-h. Fine specimens. Mogador. Presented by the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 



