9. CHCEROPS. 93 



Acantholabrns exoletiis, Cuv. ^ Val. xiii. p. 247; Yarr. Brit. Fish. 



edit. 2. i. p. 341, edit. 3. i. p. 518. 

 microstoma, Cuv. ^ VuL xiii. p. 250. 



j).8-^)_ ^5 L.lat. 33-35. 



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

 reddish-brown ; no black spot behind the orbit. 



Coasts of northern Europe to the coasts of Greenland. 



a. Stuffed. Cawsand. Presented by Lieut. H. F. Spence, R.N. 

 h~c. Younar. From the Mus. Leach. 



2. Centrolabrus trutta. 



Crenilabrus ti-utta, Loice, Proc. Zool. Soc. i. 1833, p. 143. 

 Acantholabrus viridis, pt., Cuv. Sf Val. xiii. p. 252. 



\dridis, Valvnc. in Wibb ^- Berthel. Iks Canar. Poiss. p. G4. pi. 17. 



fig. 14. 

 ? Acantholabrus romerus, fulenc. I. c. 



D. 'j7. A. -i. L. lat. 34. L. transv. 2f. 



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

 with interrupted brown cross-bars ; a dark spot behind the orbit, as in 

 CreniJabrus mehps. Sometimes a spot on the root of the caudal fin. 



Madeira. Canary Islands. 



a, h, c. Adult and half-grown. Madeira. Presented by J. Y. Johnson, 

 Esq. 



3. Centrolabrus romeritus. 



Acantholabrus viridis, pt., Cuv. 8f Val. xiii. p. 252. 



romeritus, Valenc. in Wehb ^- Berthel. lies Canar. Poiss. p. G4. 



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

 Brownish-green, sometimes with indistinct darker longitudinal 

 streaks. 



Canary Islands. 



Probably identical Avith C. trutta. 



Second Group. CHOEROPINA. 

 9. CH(EROPS. 



Cossvphus, sp., Cuv. Sj- Val., Bleek. 



Chceiops, Riipp. Verz. Mus. ScncJcenb. Fische, p. 20; Bleek. Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1801, p. 416. 

 Hypsigenys, Oiinth. Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hist. 1861, viii. p. 383. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with rather large scales ; snout 

 obtuse ; cheeks high, with veiy small scales which are generally not 

 imbricate ; operculum scaly. Each jaw anteriorly with four strong 



