

Class IV. RAINBOW WRASSE. 343 



H 'lov\l{. Arist. Hist. not. dinali fulva utrinque dentata^ 10. Rain- 



lib. be. c. 2. Milan. Hist. Gm. Lin. 1288. B0W * 



an. lib. ii. c. 44. Oppian. Arted. gen. 54. 



hb. i. Gronov. Zooph. 71. No. 241. 



Julis. P/in. Hist. nat. lib. Don. Hist. Br. Fishes, tab. 



32. c. Q. 96. 



Belon 254. La Girdle. Block ichth. viii. 



Girello. Girella. Donzella. 114. tab. 28?. 



Rondel. 180. Gesner 464. De Za Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



Labrus Julis. L. lateribus cae- 50ns. iii. 497. 



rulescentibus ; vitta longitu- 



[A WRASSE, apparently of this species, but 

 varying in color from those taken in the Medi- 

 terranean, is said to have been caught upon the 

 coast of Cornwall in the summer of 1802. 



The Cornish specimen rather exceeded the Descrip- 

 length of seven inches ; it was of a slender, or TI0N ' 

 elongated form, and remarkable for the elegant 

 distribution of its colors, green, yellow, and pur- 

 ple, changeable in various directions of light; a 

 broad dentated stripe extended from the head 

 nearly to the tail, the color of which was silvery 

 and fulvous ; the dorsal fin marked towards the 

 front with a black spot contained nine spiny and 

 thirteen soft rays ; the pectoral twelve rays ; the 

 ventral, one spiny, and five soft ; the anal two 

 spiny and thirteen soft ; the tail thirteen rays. 



