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FOUR-SPINED LABRUS. 



Labrus albidus, corpore utrinque macularum subrotundarum fus- 



carum seriebus quatuor. 

 Whitish Labrus , marked on each side with four rows of roundish 



brown spots. 

 Le tetracanthe. Cepede. 



SIZE not mentioned : tail freckled with black 

 points : dorsal fin furnished with four spiny and 

 twenty-one soft rays : native of the Indian seas ? 

 mentioned by Cepede. 



DEM1DISC LABRUS. 



Labrus Semidiscus. L. palJidus, fasdis tiovendedm transversis 



nigriSj cauda lumda tcrminuli pallida. 

 Pale Labrus, with nineteen transverse black bands, and tail 



marked by a pale terminal crescent. 

 Le demidisque. Cepede. 



MENTIONED by Cepede from Commerson : native 

 of the Indian seas. 



FORKED LABRUS. 



Labrus Furcatus. L. maxilla inferiore loiigiore, radio ultimo 

 pinnae dorsalis analisque elongato, cauda longaforfaata. 



Labrus with the lower jaw longer than the upper, the last ray 

 of the dorsal and anal fin elongated, and long forked tail. 



L. fourche. Cepede. 



NATIVE of the Indian seas : observed by Commer- 



