Labbus. fishes. ACANTHOPT. 209 



the dorsal fin in the rest of the group elongated — In some varieties there is 

 a black spot on the tail, and another at the beginning of the dorsal fin, con- 

 stituting the Goldsinny of Jago. 



129. Cgibhus. Gibbous Wrasse — Back arched, carinated; 

 descending suddenly to the mouth. 



Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. 250.— Anglesea. 

 Length 8 inches. Body with blue, orange, black, and green spots and 

 stripes ; above each eye, a dusky semilunar spot. D. V, P. 13, V. |, A. i\. 

 Pennant is the only naturalist who has noticed this species. 



Gen. LXIV. LABRUS. Bekgil.— Margin of the preoper- 

 cle entire. 



130. L. Balanus. Body oblong, red, with spots and stripes 

 of blue and orange. 



Ballan Wrasse, Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. 246 Labrus Tinea, Don. Brit. 



Fishes, t. Ixxxiii.— Rocky shores. 

 Length about 18 inches. D. fa, P. 14, "V. i, A. |. This fish, from the 

 variable colour which it exhibits, has been described under different names. 

 When marked on the sides with parallel longitudinal blue and olive stripes, 

 it is the Striped Wrasse of Pennant (Brit. Zool. iii. 249., and of Donovan, 

 t. xxi.) Those havmg two dark spots at the base of the dorsal, and a third 

 between the dorsal fin and the tail constitute the Trimaculated Wrasse of 

 Pennant, Brit. Zool. iii. 248., and of Donovan, Brit. Fishes, t. xlix. This 

 variety is probably also the Bimaculated Wrasse of Pennant, Brit. Zool. iii. 

 247., found by Mr Brunich, at Penzance, and referred by him to the L. bi. 

 maculata of Linnaeus. — In Orkney, where this species is called Bergil, it is 

 esteemed as food. 



131. L. Comber. — Beneath, and parallel with the lateral 

 line, a smooth even silvery stripe from the gills to the tail. 



Comber, Jago, Ray., Pise. 163 ? Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. 252 — CornwalL 

 " It was of a slender form. The dorsal fin had twenty spiny, eleven soft 

 rays: The pectoral fourteen : the ventral five : the anal three spiny, seven 

 soft. The tail rounded. The colour of the back, fins and tail, red : the 

 belly yellow," Pennant. 



132. L. lineatus. — Body green, with numerous yellowish 

 longitudinal lines. 



Don. Brit. Fishes, t. Ixxiv.— Cornwall. 

 Length 7 inches. D. fg, P. 14, V. 8, A. |, C 15. A specimen was taken on 

 the Cornish coast, by Captain Bray, which Donovan has delineated — It is 

 provincially known by the name of Green Fish. 



183. L. Coquus. Cook. — Back purple, belly yellow. 



Jago, Ray, Pise. 133 — Cornwall. 

 The first notice of this species is by Mr Jago : " Dorso est purpureo et 

 indico, ventre flavescente : squamosus est, et ad longitudinem 10 digitorum 

 plus minus accrescit. Magna copia interdum capiuntur." In the last edi- 

 tion of the British Zoology (1812), it is added: " Among the drawings of 

 fishes caught near Penzance, the editor has received one of a species of 

 Wrasse called at Cornwall the Cuckoo-fish, and which may probably be the Cook 

 Wrasse of Ray. The head is large, and slopes rapidly to the nose ; the mouth 

 lai^e ; the lips fleshy ; the teeth few and sharp ; the pupil of the eye dark, 



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