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on the farthest cover of the gills is a depression 

 radiated from the center. It has only four 

 branchiostegous rays. The dorsal fin has 

 thirty-one rays, twenty spiny, eleven soft; the 

 last branched, and much longer than the spiny 

 rays ; the pectoral fins fourteen ; the ventral 

 six ; the first of which is short and spiny ; the 

 anal twelve; the three first spiny, the nine 

 others branched and soft; the tail rounded at 

 the end ; at the bottom, for about a third part 

 of the way, between each ray is a row of 

 scales. The color, in general, is yellow, spot- 

 ted with orange. 



Labrus bimaculatus. L. pinna Fred. i. 66. tab. xxxi. Jig. 3. Bimacu- 



dorsali ramentacea, macula 66. lated. 



fusca in latere medio, et ad Le Labre double tache. De la 

 caudam. Lin. Syst. 477. Cepede Hist, des Poissons, 



Gm. Lin. 128g. iii. 502. 



Sciaena bimaculata. Mus. Ad. 



i\jLR. Brunnich observed this species at Pen- 

 zance, and referred me to Linnauss description 

 of it in the Museum Ad. Fred, where it is de- 

 scribed under the name of Scicena Bimaculata. 



The body is pretty deep, and of a light color, Descrip- 

 marked in the middle on each side with a round T10N * 

 brown spot ; on the upper part of the base of 



