298 



L ABRIDGE. 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



LABRJDM. 



THE GIBBOUS WRASSE. 



Crenilabrus gibbus, Flem. Brit. An. p. 209, sp. 129. 



,, ,, CuviER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 259, note. 



Labrus ,, Gmelin. Linn. 



,, ,, Gibbous Wrasse, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 338, pi. 56. 



The Gibbous Wrasse is inserted on the authority of 

 Pennant, whose figure and description from the last edition 

 of the British Zoology are here repeated. 



" This species was taken off Anglesey : its length was 

 eight inches ; the greatest depth three inches : it was of a 

 very deep and elevated form, the back being vastly arched, 

 and very sharp or ridged. From the beginning of the head 

 to the nose^ was a steep declivity ; the teeth like those of the 

 others ; the eyes of a middling size ; above each a dusky 

 semilunar spot ; the nearest cover of the gills finely ser- 

 rated." The fin-rays were — 



D, 16 + 9 : P. 13 : V. 1 + 5 : A. 3 + 11 : C. 14. 



" The first sixteen rays of the back fin strong and spiny, 

 the other nine soft and branched ; the pectoral fins consisted 



