90 LABEID^. 



the total length. A large black spot anteriorly on the dorsal fin, 

 and another on each side of the caudal ; vertical fins with a narrow 

 blackish margin. ( Val.) 

 Mediterranean. 



3. Ctenolabrns iris. 



Cuv. 4- Val. xiii. p. 236. pi. 374; iowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 11; 

 Bonap. Faun. JRal. Pesc. pi, fig. 3. 



D. if. A. ■^. L. lat. 37. L. transv. 3/10. 



The height of the body is one-fifth of the total length; snout 

 conicaUy produced; head twice as long as high. A brown longi- 

 tudinal streak through the eye and across the operculum. A black 

 spot on the anterior soft dorsal rays, and a second round one on the 

 posterior part of the two middle caudal rays. 



Mediterranean. Madeira. 



a. Sicily. Presented by W. Swainson, Esq. 



** Interopercidum naked : Tatitogolabrm. 

 4. Ctenolabrus burgall. 



Labrus burgall, Schoepf in Schrift. Gesellsch. l^aturf. Freunde, viii. 



p. 155 ; Bl. Schn. p. 251. 

 chogset, Mitch, in Trans. Lit. 8f Phil. Soc. New York, i. p. 402. 



pi. 3. fig. 2. 

 Ctenolabrus chogset, Cuv. 8r Val. xiii. p. 237. 

 coeruleus, Storer, Synops. Fish. N. A. p. 134 ; Dekay, New York 



Fauna, Fishes, p. 172. pi. 29. fig. 93. 



D. i5ii9). A. |. L. lat. 46-50. L. transv. 6/17. Vert. 17/19. 



The height of the body is equal to, or rather more than, the length 

 of the head, and is contained three times and one-third or three 

 times and two-thirds in the total ; five or six series of smaU scales 

 on the cheek. Greenish or bluish, sometimes faintly clouded ; head 

 and back with yellow dots. 



Atlantic coasts of the northern parts of North America. 



a. Adult. Canada. Presented by the Officers of the Army Medical 



Department at Fort Pitt. 

 h. Half-grown : skin. New York. 



c. Fine specimen. Boston. Presented by B. "Winstone, Esq. 



d. Adult. Nahans Bay. Presented by B. Winstone, Esq. 

 e,/, g, h, i-m. Adult and half-grown. North America. 



n. Adult female : skeleton. Boston. Presented by B. "Winstone, Esq. 



Variety. 



Ctenolabrus uninotatus, Cuv. ^ Val. xiii. p. 239; Dekay, New York 

 Fauna, Fishes, p. 174. pi. 29. fig. 90. 



A black spot on the base of the two anterior soft dorsal rays. 



a. Fine specimen. Halifax Harbour. PresentedbyB. Winstone, Esq. 

 h. Young. Presented by the Smithsonian Institution. 



