112 LABRIDJi. 



1. Clepticus genizarra. 



Rabirubbia genizarra, Parra, p. 44. lam. 21. fig. 1. 

 Clepticus genizarra, Ciiv. iSf- Val. xiii. p. 207. pi, 377; Cwt'. R^gne Anitn. 

 III. Poiss. pi. 89. fig. 1. 



D. 1|. A. ^. L. lat. 35. L. transv. 5/12. 



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

 fourth and fifth rays of the dorsal and the seventh and eighth of the 

 anal produced ; caudal forked. 



Caribbean Sea. 



a. Adult : skin. Jamaica. From Dr. Pamell's Collection. 



17. LABRICHTHYS*. 



Labrus, sp., Cuv. 8r Val. 



Labrus, sp., Tautoga, sp., et Julis, sp., Richardson. 

 Labriclithys, Bleek. Floi-is, p. 331. 



Pseudolabrus et Labrichthys, Bleeker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, pp. 413, 

 415, 



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

 or less pointed. Opercles scaly ; cheeks more or less scaly ; prae- 

 operculum not serrated ; lateral line continuous. Teeth in the jaws 

 in a single series ; but there is sometimes an interior series of smaller 

 teeth destined to replace those in function. Posterior canine tooth 

 generally present. Formula of the fins : D. ^. A. ^. 



Pacific. East Indian Archipelago. 



Bleeker has established the genus Labrichthys for L. ci/anotcenia,' 

 and distinguished it from Pseudolabrus (rubiginosus) by the single 

 series of teeth on the lower pharyngeal. L. celidota has two series, 

 L. tetrica, L. rubiginosa, and L. lucidenta have three. All these series 

 are very irregular, and form rather a band or a patch. 



* 1 . Labrus epbippium, Ciiv. ^ Val. xiii. p. 96. — Java ? 



2. fucicola, Richards. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 26, and TVans. Zool. Soc. 



iii. p. 136 ; Voy. Ereb. # Terr. Fishes, p. 127. pi. 54. figs. 1 & 2.— Tas- 

 mania and South Australia. 



3. iris, Solandcr, MS. — Sir John Eichardson has introduced into the 



literature a fish obtained on Cook's first voyage to the coast of New 

 Holland, off Bustard Bay ; there are no means of ascertaining its proper 

 place in the system, but Solander's description is as follows : — " Dor- 

 sum pallide olivaceum, infra mediimi e citrulescenti-albidum. Vitta 

 in medio qaadruplex, a. superne lutescens, /3. pallide cyanea, y. lutes- 

 cens, S. griseo-ceerulescens. Supra os fascire tres splendidic, a. intense 



cajrulea, /3. flava, y. . Capitis latera pallide cserulescentia ad pin- 



nas pectorales ducta. Vittse cterulese per iridem continuantur. — Obs. 

 Vitta lateralis postice cyanea, ad basin pinnfe caudalis arcuata et inferne 

 reflexa. Pinna caudalis rubescens, subpellucida ; dorsahs lutescens ; 

 pinna pectorales e corneo-albidae, pellucidaj ; ventrales et pinna ani 

 albido-pellucidte. — Obs. Eadius supremus pinna3 caudalis elongatus, ut 

 Cauda triplo longior." 



4. Julis (?) rubiginosus, Richards. Ann. S[ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1843, xi. p. 425. — 



New Zealand. 



