WRASSES. 



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Genus CORIS '. 



Head iialicd, fairly pointed. Body oblong, compressed, with comparatively small scales. More titan 50 scales in 

 the lateral line, ivhich is unbroken. Spinous rays in the dorsal fin 9, branchiostegah 0. 



THE RAINBOW WRASSE. 



CORIS JULIS. 



Fig. 2. 



Loiyth of the head from 2o to 28 per cent, greatest depth of the Ijody from. 17 to 20 per cent of the lenyth of. 



the body. Namber of scales in the lateral line about 75. Above and below the lateral line, at its straight part 



at the beginning <f the tail, 8 rows of scales. A dark-blue spat on the fiaji of the gill cover. 



d^: The fr.<if .'spinous rays in the dor.scd fin are elongated, being the longest in the whole fin, and, between the first 

 (Hid the third or fourth ray, the fin-membrane is marked with a black spot. ?• The length of the spinous rays 

 in the anterior part of the dorsal fin increases as they advance along the fin, the first ray is the shortest, and 



in this sex there is no black spot developed on the fin-membrane. 



Fig. 2. The Rainbow Wrasse {Coris julis). cf and 9- Natural size. Two of the type specimens of Labms paroticus of LlXM^US. 



7?. hr. 6; D. — ; A. — ; P. •',.; V. V,; C x + 12 + x; 

 12 12 



4- 8 



L. lot. 73 — 75'^; L. tr. aid. — — —\ L. tr. caiid. — . 



Syn. Labriis palmaris varius, dentibus 2 majoribus maxilla; superi- 

 oris, Artedi, Iclitli., Gen., p. 34; Syn., p. 53. 

 Labrus Julis, Lmn^us, Syst. Nat, ed. X, Tom. I, p. 284; GCs- 

 THER {Coris) Brit. Miis. Cat., Fish., IV, p. 195; D.\T, Fish. 

 G:t Brit., IreL, I, p. 26!), tab. LXXVII; Winthee, Prodr. 

 Ichth. Dan. mar., Xaturh. Tidskr., ser. 3, vol. XII p. 27. 

 Labrus paroticus, Linn^us, 1. c. 



Jitli.? mediterranea, speciosa, Gio/redi, Risso; vide GC.nther et 



Day, 11. CO. 

 Julis vulgaris, Fleming, Brit. An., p. 210; Cuv., Val., Hist. Xat. 



Poiss., XIII, p. 361; Kroyer, Damn. Fiske, I, p. 561. 

 Julis /estiva, Ccv., Val.,; Julis melanura, Lowe; vide Gt's- 



THEU et Day, ]1. cc. 

 Obs. Both in Sijstema Naturce (10th and 12th Edd.) and in 

 Museum Adnlphi Friderici {Prodr. tomi secundi, pp. 75 and 76). 

 LiNNiVS has described Labrus Julis and Labrus paroticus, the one 

 after the other. In Syst. JVat. the Mediterranean is given as the 

 habitat of the former, and India as that of the latter; but in Mus. Ad. 

 Frid. America is given as the habitat of both. /,. paroticus seems, 



" GOnther. 1. c. p. 195. Cf. Bleeker, Atl. Ichth., I. pp. 55, 83, and 99. 

 ' Of 9 specimens in the Royal Museum one has C. .r + 11 + x. 

 ' 75 — 80, according to GCnther and Day. 



