diH LABRIDE. 



lightest on the lower part of the sides and belly ; the body is 

 also indistinctly marked with five transverse bands, the first 

 of which descends from below the more anterior spinous rays 

 of the dorsal fin, and the fifth from below the elongated soft 

 rays of the dorsal fin ; but I have never seen these bands near 

 so strongly marked as they are made to appear in Bloch"'s 

 coloured figure, the ground colour of the body of which re- 

 sembles that of one of my specimens. Young examples of 

 this species are of a uniform yellowish flesh colour ; the fins 

 still lighter ; but the black spot at the commencement of the 

 dorsal fin, and on the upper part of the base of the tail, are 

 very conspicuous from the uniform paleness of the body and 

 fins generally, and, but for these two constant spots, are not 

 unlike the Labrus pusillus of Mr. Jenyns, as figured in this 

 Supplement. These spots appear to be good distinctions ; 

 very young specimens of Crenilabrus cornubicus, which in 

 the British Fishes should have been called the Corkwing, are 

 constantly marked with the spot on the middle of the side of 

 the tail, in specimens measuring only one inch and a half in 

 length. The fin-ray formula in Jago"'s Goldsinny is — 



D. 17 + 9'-. P. 14 : V. 1 -f 5 : A. 3 -I- 7 : C. 13. 



The number of scales along the lateral line is thirty-two, 

 and four or five more extend along the basal half of the rays 

 of the caudal fin ; there are four rows of scales between the 

 lateral line and the dorsal ridge, and eleven rows of scales 

 between the lateral line and the anal aperture. 



M. Nilsson says, this species is liable to variations in co- 

 lour, and some of the species taken in Northern localities are 

 tinged with green. 



