306 ACANTHOPT. FAMILY OF WRASSES, 



lighter. The scales forming the lateral line are thirty- 

 two. The formulary of the fin rays is 



D. 19/6 P. 13 V. 1/5 A. 6/7 C. 12/2 shorter ones. 



Gen. XLIX. JULIS. This, the last genus of the 

 family we have to notice, is one of the most nu- 

 merous, containing, in L'Hist. Nat. des Poissons, not 

 less than eighty-eight species. It contains the fishes 

 which are of all others, perhaps, the most strikingly 

 and brilliantly bedecked, those in temperate seas 

 yielding in no degree to their intropical congeners. 

 At the same time, it must be allowed, that these 

 fishes are characteristic of warm regions, one only 

 penetrating far north and reaching the British shores, 

 whilst only three or four are found in the Mediter- 

 ranean. These fishes frequent the coast, and live 

 among the coral rocks where they find abundance 

 of molluscous and testaceous animals, which their 

 well-armed jaws enable them readily to crush and 

 appropriate. In this genus the lateral line is unin- 

 terrupted; the dorsal is furnished with stiff and 

 sharp spinous rays ; the whole head, including the 

 cheeks and jaws, is devoid of scales ; their teeth 

 are conical and strong in front, and behind the first 

 range there are enamelled tubercles varying in size 

 and shape. 



(Sp. 93.) J. vulgaris. The Rainbow "Wrasse. 

 Indented Striped Wrasse. Julis Mediterranean 

 Eisso. (PI. XXIII.) Professing to follow the recent 

 and profound researches of M. M. Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes as far as they lead, we adopt the name 



