190 PISCES. 



Others again have a crescent-shaped or bifurcated tail.(l) 



Anampses, Cuv. 



All the characters of a Julis, with the exception of two flat teeth 

 in the jaws, which project from the mouth and curve outwards. 



But one or two species are known; from the Indian Ocean. (2) 



Crenilabrus, Cuv. 



We separate these fishes from the Lutjanus of Bloch, in order to 

 arrange them in their proper place. They have all the characters, 

 external and internal, of a true Labrus, and only differ in the denta- 

 tion of the border of their preoperculum. 



Some of them arc taken in the northern seas; such as the 

 Lutjanus ntpestris, Bl. 250; fawn coloured, with clouded, black- 

 ish vertical bands. Lutjanus norvegicus, Id., 256; brownish, 

 irregularly spotted and marbled with deep brown. Labrus me- 

 lops; orange, spotted with blue; a black spot behind the eye; pi. 

 xxi, f. 1. Labrus exoletus, or L. palloni, Risso; remarkable for 

 the five spines of its anal.(3) 



The Mediterranean produces a great number which are de- 

 corated with the most beautiful colours; the most splendid is 

 the Labrus lapina, Fbrsk.; silvery, with three broad longitudi- 

 nal bands formed of vermilion dots, yellow pectorals, the ven- 

 trals blue, 8cc.(4) They abound also in the seas of hot cli- 



Coris aigrette, III, iv, 1, must be closely allied to the Girelle Gaymard. M. deLa- 

 cepede has also named Ilotogymnoses some of these fishes, in which the scales of 

 the body, smaller than usual, are concealed during life by a thick epidermis; but 

 the scales which do not appear in the drawing of Commerson, engraved Lac^p., 

 in, pi. 1, f. 3, are very visible in the dried specimen deposited in the museum: 

 that genus must therefore be included in Julis, together with the Demi-Bisque, III, 

 pi. vi, f. 1; the Annele, lb., pi. xxviii, and the Cercle, which at least are closely 

 allied to it. 



(1) Species with crescent-shaped or forked tails: Labre hebra't'que, hacep. Ill, 

 xxix, 3; — Labrus bifasciatus, Bl. 283; — L. lunaris., L., Gron., Mas., II, vi, 2, cop. 

 Encycl., 196; — L. lunaris, Bl., 281, which is different andmay possibly be nothing 

 more than an altered Julis turcica,- — L. viridis, Bl.., 282; — L. brasiliensis, BL, 280,- 

 Julis carukocephalus, Cuv., or Girelle Duperrey, Voy. Freycin. Zool. pi. f 333; — 

 L. argente, Lac, III, xviii. N.B. The Scarus gallus, Forsk., is probably the same 

 as the Lab. lunaris. 



(2) Labrus tetrodon, Bl., Schn., 263; — Anampses Cuvieri, Quoy and Gaym., Voy. 

 Freycin., Zool., pi. Iv, f 1. 



(3) Add, Lab. gibbus,Penn., xlvi, copied Encycl., 403; — Lutj. virescens, Bl., 

 254, ]. 



(4) Uisso describes several in his first edition under the name of Lutjanus; in 

 the second he adopts our genus Crenii.abbus, and carries the number of species 



