CORKLING. 



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ACAA'THOPTERVGII. 



LAB1UD3:. 



THE CORKLING. 



Crenilahrus pnsilius. 



Turdus miiwr, Corkling, Ray, Syn. Pise. p. 165. 



Labrus pusillvs, ,, .Ienyns, Brit. Vert. p. 392, sp. 70. 



Crenilabrus midtidentatus, Ball's Wrasse, Thompson, Pioc. Zool. Soc. 1837, 



p. 56. 



This species, of which no examples more than four inches 

 in lengtli have been as yet recorded, was obtained by Pro- 

 fessor Henslow at Weymouth, and four or five specimens are 

 now preserved in the Museum of the Cambridge Philoso- 

 phical Society. I possess one which was sent me by Mr. 

 Couch from Cornwall ; and Mr. Thompson of Belfast has 

 recorded the occurrence of three others, which were taken at 

 Youghal in Ireland, by Mr. Ball, in the summer of 1835. 



These last specimens were characterised by Mr. Thomp- 

 son in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1 887, 

 page 56 — not without some hesitation — as a new species, 

 under the name of Crenilabrus midtidentatus ; but subse- 

 quent comparative examinations of the specimens of the two 

 countries, appear to show that they are identical, and they 

 are here therefore brousfht together. 



