08 FISHES. THORAC1CI. 19. Labrus. 



59. Sp. Pagnts, Rose-red, with longitudinal stripes of 

 a deeper red : near the gill covers each side 2 black 

 spots. 



Red Gilthcad. .fir. Zool. K. 113. Block t. 267. 



Body about the size of the last, covered with large fcales ; eyes 

 large, silvery : skin at the end of the dorfal and anal fins gathered 

 up and hiding the last rays : mouth and tongue fine red : belly silvery, 

 slightly marked with longitudinal yellowish streaks; tail forked. 



60. Sp. Dentcx. Body reddish varied with brown: in each 

 jaw 4 teeth larger than the rest. 



Four-toothed Gilthead. Donovan's Fishes t. 73. 



Body growing to a large size, varying much in colour, fometimes 

 fpotted and streaked with black : back reddish : tail fcaly at the 

 bafe : dorfaX-fin 20-rayed ; pectoral 12; ventral 5; anal io ; caudal 

 ig-rayed. 



61. Sp. niger. Above black, beneath silvery : back with 

 a silvery stripe along the base of the dorsal-fin : dor- 

 sal and anal-fins clothed with silvery scales. 



Toothed Gilthead. Br. Zool t. 43. Linn. Trans. 7. p. 292. 



Taken in Swanfea Bay Nov. 12, 1836. 



Body 2 feet long, 9 inches deep, very much compressed, rounded 

 on the forepart of the back, covered with large firm angular fcales 

 placed in an hexagonal manner : head much rounded and sloping in 

 front : mouth oblique downwards : jaws nearly equal : teeth a single 

 row of incurved larger-ones and a row or two of fmaller-oes in 

 each jaw, besides a short longitudinal mafs of obtufe ones on each 

 side in the palate of the upper-jaw: eyes very large, distant ; iris 

 \vhite : gill-covers of 2 pieces ; the apertures very large, membrane 

 y-rayed : lateral-line obfolete : vent in the middle, between the ven- 

 tral and anal-fins : fins all covered with silvery fcales at the,bafe : 

 dorsal falcate, the first 7 rays very high, 34-rayed, and like the anal 

 clothed with silvery imbricate fcales placed longitudinally; the rays 

 ending in short fafcicular processes : pectoral pointed, so-rayed : 

 Central pointed, 6-rayed, with a. fmaller Supplemental one at the sides 

 covered with silvery fcales : anal fcmewhat falcate, 28-rayed : the 

 rays ending in short fafcicular processes : tail black, forked, with 

 pointed lobes, 2^-rayed. 



19. LABRUS. Wrasse. 



63. L. gibbns: Variegated blue and orange : dorsal and 

 anal-tins green spotted with black. 



Gibbous Wrasse. Penn. Brit. Zool. iii t. 46, 



Body about 8 inches long, size of a perch, but more gibbous on 

 the back, covered with large fcales : head sloping ; above each eye 

 a dusky femiluuar fpot : first gill-cover finely ferrate : pectoral-fins 

 yellow, tranfverfely striped with red at the bafe : ventral and caudal 

 fea-green : dorfal-fin 2^-raycd ;. pectoral 13 ; ventral ' 6 . anal 13; 

 tail large, 15-rayed. 



63. L. Tinea. Yellowish, variegated with blue, c*nd 

 spotted with red : fins red, spotted with white : lips 

 reflected : dorsal-fan ramentaceous. 



Ancient Wrasse, Old Wife. Br, Zool. t. 44. DoMto.'t.&fr 



Body 15-18 inches long, of a rather hulky form, with a dusky hue 

 D n the back, and variegated with fefu'e red and ye-llow : /inx edged 

 With brown: lips large, reflected, reli, tile t.:eth in 2 lows, the 

 first row conic : ^ill-covers with radiate d-pr.-ssions under the 

 fcales- above the nofe a deep fur-'.-v: threat with two tuUercled 

 bones above, and one below : dor/ai-Jin ao-rayed ; pectoral 14 J *- 

 tralQ', anal iej tail i^-rayed. 



