FISHES. TIIORACICI. 19. Labrus. 99 



64. L. Julis. Back green, sides blackish with a longitu- 

 dinal indented fulvous stripe : "2 front- teeth longer. 



Indented striped Wrasse. Donovans Fishes, t. 96. 



Body 7 or 8 inches long, elongated, changeable blue-green \vitli 

 the indented stripe fulvous and silvery, belly silvery : jaiLS equal : 

 ' dorfal-fin with a black spot at the top, iz-rayed : pectoral is ; 

 vtntrald; anal 1^5 ; tail i3-rayed. 



65* L. variegates. Red with 4 longitudinal grccnish-olire 

 stripes each side, and as many blue-ones. 



Striped Wrasse. Br. ZooL iii. t. 4,5 Donovan.t. 21. 



Bodv oblong, about 10 inches long, cohered with large fcales : 

 lips large, doubled : gill-membrane ^-raycd, the covers grey stuped 

 with yellow : throat almost yellow : at the bafe of the pect orul -fine 

 adark olive fpot : dorfal-fin inaiked at the beginning with a broad 

 band of rich blue, the middle part white, the rett red : anal and 

 ventral-fins edged with blue: dotfal-Jin 31 -rayed; pectoral 15- 

 ventra\ 6 ; anal 15; tail blue on the uupcr half, yellow on the' 

 lower. 



66. L. bimaculatus. Grey, with a brown rounded spot each 

 side on the middle of the body, and another near the 

 tail. 



Bimaculated Wrasse. Penn. Brit. ZooL iii. p. 247. n. 117. 



Body rather deep, of a light colour : gill-membrane 6-rayei : 1- 

 teral-line curved: dorsal-Jin 26-rayed ; pectoral 1,5; ventral 6 j 

 anal 12. 



67. L. trimacalaius* Red, with large scales, and 3 blacK 

 spots towards trie end of tho back. 



Trimaculated Wrass*. Br. ZooL t. 46. Donovan's Fishes t. 49. 



Body oblong, about i a inches in length, above orange-red, palef 

 beneath, with 4 rose-coloured fpot? alternating with the bluck ones ; 

 gill-membrane 5-rayed : fins fome of them edged with bliu : lateral' 

 line nearly straight: dorfal-Jin 3c-rayed ; pectoral \ 6 - ? nitlrul 6^i 

 unali^: tail 14-rayed. 



58. L. Comber. Slender, red, beneath yellow : beneath 

 the lateral-line a longitudinal silvery stripci 



Comber Wrasse. Br. ZooL iii. p. 252. t. 47. 



Back, fins, and taii red : belly yellow : silve**-slr?pe parallel^ 

 fmooth, even : dorjal-fin si-rayed ; pectoral 14 ; ventral 5 ; anal 10. 



69. L. Coquus. Slender, purple and dark blue, beneath-, 

 yellow. 



Cook Wrasse. BT. ZooL iii. n. 123. Ray. Pifc. 163 ./. 4. 



Body., refembling the last : back purple and dark blue: belly 

 yellow^ 



70. L. cornuMcus. Variegated green brown and yellow: near 



the tail a round brown spot : anal-fin yellow, oblique- 

 ly barred with brown. 



Coldfinny. Donovan's Fishes tab. 72. Br. ZooL iii. t. 47. 



Body about a palm long, shaped like L. Tinea : lips doubled ; jaiut 

 and gill-covers rich yellow : belly yellowish-white : dorsal-fin green- 

 ish, with dusky clouds : pectoral and ventral-fins yellowish-white : 

 dorsal-Jin 25-rayed ; pectoral 12: vetral 7; anal 13; tail green, 

 14-rayed. 



71. L. lineatus. Greenish beneath yellowish, with nume- 

 rous parallel longitudinal yellowish lines. 



Streaked Wrasse. Donovan's Brit. Fishes, tab. 74. 



Body 7 inches long, with green head back and fins, the sides pale : 

 .iris yellow, pupil black : lateral-line curved : dorsal-Jin 3>rayed : 

 p.ectoral 14 ; ventral 8 j anal 11 ; tail i^-rayed. 

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