16. CLEPTICUS. Ill 



rays, and the caudal lobes become twice as long as the middle rays. 

 Brownish-_y eUow : pectoral with a large dark spot on its extremity. 

 During life, blue, with a yeUow patch behind the pectoral fins. (Gill.) 

 Coasts of LoAver California. 



Attains to a length of two feet. 



18. Cossyphus gonldii. 



Labrus gouldii, Richards. Ami. 8,- Ma(). Nat. Hist. 1843, xi. p. 353. 

 Cossvphus vel Lachnolaimus gouldii, Richa7-ds. Voy. Ereh. ^ Terr. 



Fishes, p. 132. 

 Cossj-phus gouldii, Richards. Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hist, 1851, vii. p. 288, 



and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 72. pi. 3. fig. 3. 



D. li. A. ^. L. lat. 39. L. transv. 6/14. 



Posterior canine teeth none. 



Four anterior canine teeth in each of the jaw's. The upper profile 

 of the head bent downwards in a regular curve ; praeorbital elevated; 

 scales on the cheek not imbricate ; praeoperculum not serrated; dor- 

 sal fin scaly ; caudal truncated. Uniform dark purplish. 



Western Australia. 



a. Thirty-nine inches long: stuffed. Western Australia. Pre- 

 sented by Mr. Gould. — Type of the species. 



19. Cossyphus scrofa. 



Labrus scrofa, Ciiv. <§- Val. xiii. p. 93. 



Crenilabrus caninus, Lowe in Proc. Zool, Soc. 1839, p. 84, and in Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. ii. p. 186, & iii. p. 10. 



D. }|. A. j^^. L. lat. 50. L. transv. 6/19. Vert. 28. 



Praeoperculum serrated or entire. Snout pointed, its length being 

 contained twice and two-thirds in that of the head. Eed : the lower 

 parts and the fins yellow, the dorsal and anal with brown spots ; a 

 large black blotch between the five anterior dorsal spines. 



Madeira ; Canary Islands ; Cape Verde. 



I have seen but one specimen, in the Collection of the Philoso- 

 phical Society of Cambridge, and for a verj^ short time only. Al- 

 though the species differs from the others in the size of the scales, it 

 did not appear to me to differ genericaUy from Cossrjphus. 



16. CLEPTICUS. 



Clepticus, Cuv. 8f Val. xiii. p. 265. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with scales of moderate size ; 

 snout obtuse ; cleft of the mouth narrow, with a series of very small 

 teeth anteriorly ; no posterior canine tooth. Imbricate scales on the 

 cheeks and opercles ; dorsal and anal fins enveloped in scales ; lateral 

 line not interrupted. Formula of the fins : D. ||. A. ^. 



Caribbean Sea. 



