70 lABRID^. 



the palatine to which the maxillary is joined is much produced 

 forward. 



The proportion of the vertebrae is very characteristic: the ab- 

 dominal portion is composed of eighteen and the caudal of twenty-one 

 vertebrae — the length of the former being to that of the latter as 

 1:1-15. 



1. Labrus macnlatus. 

 The Ballan Wrasse, 

 Labrus bergylta, Ascan. Ic. tab. 1 ; Cuv. ^ Val. xiii. p. 20 ; Yarr. Brit. 



Fish. i. p. 275, 2nd edit. i. p. 311, 3rd edit. i. p. 482. 

 maculatus, Bl. vi. p. 17. taf. 294 ; Bl. Schn. p. 250 ; Fries och 



Ekstr. Skand. Fisk. p. 43, tab. 2 ; Jen. Man. p. 391 ; Parn. Wern. 



Mem. vii. p. 256, and jFYsA. Firth of Forth, p. 90 ; Niks. Prodr. p. 74, 



and Skand. Faun. iv. p. 261. 



aper, Retz. Faun. Suec. p. 335, 



ballan, Art. Walb. iii. p. 259 ; Bl. Schn. p, 252 ; Lacep. iii. p. 513. 



Ballan Wrasse, Perm. Brit. Zool. iii. p. 216, pi. 44, and edit, 1812, iii. 



p. 334. pi. 55. 

 Vieille, Ihiham, Peches, iii. sect. iv. p. 34. pi. 6, fig. 1. 

 Labrus berg-galt, MUll. Zool. Dan. Prodr. p, 46, 



neustriae, Lacep. iii, p, 522, 



tancoides, Lacep. iii, p, 501, 



tinea, Shatv, Nat. Mtsc. xi, pi. 426, and Zool. iv. p. 499, pi, 72; 



Donov. Brit. Fish. iv. p. 83, 



baUanus, Sliaiv, Zool. iv, p, 398, 



balanus, Fletn. Brit. An. p, 209, 



lineatus, Donov. Brit. Fish, iv, pi, 74 ; Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 99 ; 



Fletn. Brit. An. p. 209 ; Jen. Man. p, 392 ; Yarr. Brit. Fish, edit, 1. 



i, p, 279, 



comubiensis. Couch, Trans. lAnn. Soc. xiv, p, 80. 



variabilis, Thomps. Nat. Hist. Irel. iv. p, 120, 



Young. 



Labrus pnsiUus, Jemjns, Catul. Brit. Vert. p. 25, and Man. p, 392 j 



Yarrell, Brit. Fish: edit. 2. i, p. 330. 

 Crenilabrus multidentatus, TJiomps. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 56, and 



Mag. Zool. ^ Bot. ii. p, 449, pi, 13, and Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hist. 1839, 



ii, p, 418. 

 pusillus, Wliite, Catal. Brit. Fish. p. 24 ; Yarr. Brit. Fish. 3rd 



edit. i. p. 506. 



D. ^^^^^\ A. r-^. L. lat. 45. L. transv. 6-7/14. Vert. 19/19*. 



10—1 1 y \"/ 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is con- 

 tained thrice and three-fourths in the total. The width of the inter- 

 orbital space is two-thirds of the extent of the snout, which is one- 

 third of the length of the head. Groimd- colour bluish-green or 

 reddish-brown, more or less distinctly reticulated with yellow or 

 orange-red ; vertical fins bluish-green, sometimes spotted ; pectorals 

 and ventrals orange-red. 



European coasts. Mediterranean. North-west coast of Africa. 



a-c. Adult : skins and stuffed. Firth of Forth. From Dr. PameU's 

 Collection. 



* Valenciennes states 20 vertebra;, an error copied by Yarrell. 



