286 



LAIUUD.«. 



ACANTHOPTERYGIL 



LABRID^. 



THE RED WRASSE. THREE-SPOTTED 

 WRASSE. 



DOUBLY-SPOTTED WRASSE. 



Labrus carneus, Bloch, pt. ix. pi. 289. 



,, ,, CuviER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 256. 



,, trimaculatus, Trimaculated Wrasse, Penn. Brit. Zool. v. iii. p. 336, 



pi. 56. 

 Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 49. 

 ,, ,, Three-spotted and Doubly-spotted Wrasse of Mr. 



Couch's MS. 

 ,, quadrimaculatus, Risso, Hist. t. iii. p. 302. sp. 199. 



The Red Wrasse is a well-marked species, first de- 

 scribed by Ascanius, and appears to be occasionally met with 

 at various places on our coast. Pennant's fish was taken 

 on the coast of Anglesey. Mr. Donovan, Colonel Mon- 

 tagu, and Mr. Couch, have each described from specimens 

 obtained in Devonshire and Cornwall. Mr. Neill has re- 

 corded his notice of several taken in the Frith of Forth ; and 

 naturalists situated still farther north include it among the 

 fishes of the Baltic and coast of Norway. Two specimens 

 in my own collection, one of six inches in length, prepared 



