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Tinea : No sharp markings in spirits ; diffuse dusky blotch usually present ahove 



base of pectoral and another on middle of base of caudal. 

 Melops : A curved black blotch behind eye and a small one at base of caudal below 



median line. 

 Cinereus : A jet black blotch on anterior dorsal spines and another on lower part of 



base of caudal. 

 Melanocercus : Tip of caudal blackish ; a black spot toward tip of pectoral (rarely 



absent). 

 Doderlcini: Sides with a brown band edged with silvery, and a small black spot on 



base of caudal, just above median line; vent black. 

 Pirca : A large dark spot on last spines and first soft rays of dorsal, a smaller one at 



base of last ray, and a small one on middle of base of caudal ; a dark 



streak across base of pectoral ; scales on cheek large. 

 Ocellaris : Two to four dark spots along base of soft dorsal ; a small one on middle of 



base of caudal ; body deep, covered with large scales ; vent dark ; body 



plain (iu spirits) or sprinkled with black spots. 

 Ocellatus : A large inky-black blotch on opercle ; a small black spot on middle of base 



of caudal ; vent dark. 

 Scina: Snout produced, subtubiform ; body sprinkled with black specks; vent and 



spot at base of caudal dark. 



The literature of this genus is extremely bad. A large proportion of 

 the nominal species can not be identified with certainty. We have en- 

 deavored to refer all these to the species to which they probably belong, 

 but in the case of the species of Rafinesque, and many of those of Briin- 

 nich, Walbaum, Risso, and other writers, absolute certainty is impos- 

 sible. In few cases, however, will the nomenclature be affected by the 

 identification of these useless names. 



Besides those mentioned below, the following synonyms we find quoted 

 from a paper which we have not seen : " Tentamen Ichthyologies Mclitcn- 

 sis by Gavinus Gulia, 1861. 



Crenilabrus zeraphinus. Crenilabrus serranoides. 



Crenilabrus schemberianus. Crenilabrus intermedins. 



Crenilabrus dubius. Crenilabrus loeaninus. 



Crenilabrus serranus. Crenilabrus propinquus. 



10. SYMPHODUS MEDITERRANEUS. 



Verea mediterranea Linnajus, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 291, 1758, and Ed. xii, 485 (Mediter- 

 ranean Sea); Briinnich, Ichth. Massil., 17G8, 66, and of copyists. 



Crenilabrus mediterraneus Cuv. & Val., xiii, 186, 1839 ; Giinther iv, 79 (and of most 

 recent authors). 



Luijanus bidens Bloch, Ichthyol., pi. 251, f. 1, 1792. 



Labrus purpurescens Bloch and Schneider., Syst. Ichth., 1801, 262 (after Seba, 95, No. 

 6, t. 31, f. 6.) 



f Lutjanus chlorosochrus Risso, Ichth. Nice, 1810, 275. 



Labrus pittima Rafinesque, Caratteri, etc., 1810, 92. 



Crenilabrus boryanus Risso, Europe M6rid., 1826, ill, 320. 



Crenilabrus nigrescens Risso, 1. c, 320. 



f Crenilabrus lapina et vars. unieolor and fasciatus Risso, 1. c. (fide Bonaparte). 



Crenilabrus briinnichi Cuv. and Val., xiii, 183 (not of Lace"pede). 



Habitat — Mediterranean fauna. 

 Etymology : Mediterranean. 



