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other well-identified names are prior to quinquemaculatus. The other 

 synonyms need no special discussion. 



For the present we may use for this species the name of Symphodus 

 ocellaris, which in all probability belongs to it, and as no absolute cer- 

 tainty would accompany the use of any of the other names. 



18. SYMPHODUS OCELLATUS. 



Labrus corpore viridi-olivaceo operculorum apice ccvruleo Briinuicb, Ichth. Mass., 56, 

 No. 71, 1768. 



Labrus viridis venis rubris anastomosantibus Briinnicb, 1. c, 58, No. 74, 1768. 



Labrus ocellalus Forskal, Descr. Aiiiui.,37, 1775 (Smyrna). 



Crenilabrus ocellatus Cuv. & Val., xiii, 193; Giinther, iv, 85; aud of authors gen- 

 erally. 



Labrus olivaceus Bonnaterre, EncycL Meth., 1788, 117 (after Briinuicb, No. 71, aud of 

 Gmolin, Walbauui, etc.). 



Labrus reticulatus Bonnaterre, 1. c, 117 (after Briinuicb, No. 74). 



Labrus venos us Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1296, 1788 (and of Walbauui), (after Briinuicb, No. 

 74). 



Labrus mendovella Rafinesque, Indice all' Ittiol. Sicil., 1810, 54. 



Lutianus ruber, Rafinesque, 1. c, 63. 



Labrus per spicillatus Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1811,267. 



Crenilabrus littoralis Risso, Eur. Me'rid, iii, 232, 1826. 



Crenilabrus rissoi Cuv. & Val., xiii, 197, 1839. 



Crenilabrus morelli Nordmann, " Deinidoff's Reise, 459, 1840." 



Crenilabrus argentostriatus^ ordmanu, 1. c, 461, 1840. 



Habitat. — Mediterranean fauna. 



Etymology : Ocellatus, having an eye-like spot. 



This handsome little fish seems to be rather common in the Mediter- 

 ranean. Our specimens are from Palermo. Its variations in color are 

 ^reat, but the jet black opercular ocellus is always diagnostic. Its syn- 

 mymy is long, but none of it seems to admit of doubt and the name 

 )cellatus has clear priority over all others. 



19. SYMPHODUS SCINA. 



Labrus scina Forskal, Descr. Auini., 1775, 36 (Constantinople), (and of tbe copyists). 



Lutjanus rostratus Blocb, Icbtbyol., taf. 254, f. 2, 1792. 



Coricus rostratus Cuv. & Val. xiii, 256, pi. 376 ; and of numerous authors. 



Crenilabrus rostratus Giiutber iv., 86 ; aud of numerous recent autbors. 



Lutjanus rubescens Risso, Icbtb. Nice, 271. 



Lutjanus virescens Risso, Icbtb. Nice, 280 (not of Bloch). 



Lutjanus lamarcki Risso, 1. c, 281. 



? Labrus pittimoides Rafinesque, Caratteri, etc., 1810, 36. 



Labrus verdolidus Rafinesque, 1. c, 36. 



Labrus macrostomus Rafinesque, 1. c, 36. 



Symphodusfulvescens Rafinesque, 1. c, 41. 



Coricusbrama Nordmann, Demidoff's Reise, 1840, 464. 



Coricus fasciatus Cocco (fide Bouaparte). 



Habitat. — Mediterranean fauna. 



Etymology : Izba, Greek name for the species at Constantinople, 

 perhaps from <jxiva%, nimble. 



