336 TRIMACULATED WRASSE. Class IV. 



the tail is another; the lateral line is incurvated. 

 The branchiostegous rays are six in number ; * 

 the first fifteen rays of the dorsal fin are spiny ; 

 the other eleven soft, and lengthened by a 

 skinny appendage ; the pectoral fins consist of 

 fifteen rays ; the ventral of six ; the first spiny; 

 the second and third ending in a slender bristle ; 

 the anal fin is pointed ; the four first rays being 

 short and spiny; the rest long and soft. 



4 Trimacu- Labrustrimaeulatus. Gm. Lin. extremo dorsi. Ascan. icon. 



LATED. 12Q4> j; 13# 



Labnts carneus maculis tribus Mull. prod. ZooL dan. 46. 

 nigris in fine pinnae dorsi et Le Paon rouge. Block ichth. 



is. 3. tab. 28g. 



JL HE species we examined was taken on the 

 coast of Anglesey ; its length was eight inches. 

 Descrip- It was of an oblong form ; the nose long ; 

 the teeth slender ; the fore teeth much longer 

 than the others ; the eyes large ; the branchio- 

 stegous rays, five ; the back fin consisted of 

 seventeen spiny rays, and thirteen soft ones ; 

 beyond each extended a long nerve ; the pec- 

 toral fins were round, and consisted of fifteen 



TION. 



* Linnceus, in his last edition, has removed this species from 

 the genus of Sciarna, to that of Labrus, though it does not agree 

 with the latter in hit number of branchiostegous rays. 



