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anal, and caudal fins, is a process formed of firm, elongated, 

 imbricated scales. Colour a uniform light brown, lighter on 

 the belly ; upper eye-lid black ; at the upper edge of the 

 base of the caudal fin a dark-brown spot. Pectorals yellow ; 

 all the other fins bordered with yellow." The number of 

 fin-rays are here repeated for the sake of uniformity. 



D. 21 + 8 : P. 14 : V. . 1 + 5 : A. 6 + 8 : C. 15. . 



" I have seen only one specimen of this Wrass, of the 

 size here mentioned, which was taken in the month of Fe- 

 bruary 1830, at the end of a very cold season ; but I have 

 met with specimens about three inches long that resemble 

 it too nearly to permit me to consider them as different 

 species." 



Mr. Couch very kindly sent me one of the specimens here 

 referred to, which has been engraved as an appropriate 

 vignette to this article. This fish exhibits an elongated 

 scale, attached by the base only, at the origin of the ventral 

 fins, partly covering the inner edges of both, and extending 

 nearly half-way along the fins ; but it is not peculiar to this 

 fish : I observe such an appendage in both the first and 

 second British species of Crenilabrus described in this work. 



