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Labru's coquus (cook), Gmel. Linn. p. 1297 ; Art. Walb. iii, p. 260 ; Shaw, 

 Zool. iv, p. 5U3 ; Lacep. iii, p. 443 ; Tui'ton, Brit. Fauna, p. 99 ; Flem. Brit. 

 Anim. p. 209 ; Jenyns, Man. p. 396. 



Labrus vittatus, Art. Walb. iii, p. 256. 



Labrus vetula, Bl. t. ccxciii; Bl. Schn. p. 250 ; Lacep. iii, p. 447 ; Swainson, 

 Fishes, ii, p. 228 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes (Ed. 1) i, p. 284, c. fig. ; Jenyns, Man. 

 p. 395. 



Grammistes variegatus, Bl. Schn. p. 190. 



Spa/rus formosus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. i, pi. xxxi. 



Labrus formosus, Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 512. 



Labrus pavo, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii, p. 299 (not Ich. Nice). 



Labrus lineatus, Bonn. Atl. Ich. p. 113, pi. xcviii, f. 402 ; Risso, Ich. Nice, 

 p. 220. 



Labrus larvatus, Rafin. Caratt. 38, sp. 101 ; Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, 

 p. 249. 



Striped wrasse, cooh or cuclcoo wrass, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, iii, p. 34, 

 pi. cxxvii. 



Synonymy of females. 



Labrus carneus, Ascan. Ic. t. xiii ; Bloch, t. cclxxxix ; Bl. Schn. p. 249 ; Yarrell, 

 Brit. Fishes (Ed. 1) i, p. 286, c. fig ; Nilss. Prod. p. 75 ; Parnell, Wern. Mem. 

 vii, p. 258, and Fish. Firth of Forth, p. 98. 



Tri.naculated wrasse, Pennant, Brit. Zool. (Ed. 1776) iii, p. 248 (Ed. 1812) 

 iii, p. 336. 



Labrus trimaculatus, Gmel. Linn, i, p. 1294 ; Bonn. Atl. Ich. p. 113, pi. xcviii, 

 f. 401 ; Lacep. iii, pp. 435, 488 ; Shaw, Nat. Misc. xix, pi. 786, and Zool. iv, 

 p. 502 ; Donovan, Brit. Fish, iii, pi. xlix ; Turton, Brit. Fauna, p. 99 ; Risso, Ich. 

 Nice, p. 219 ; Cuv. and Val. xiii, p. 58 ; Jenyns, Manual, p. 396 ; Thompson, Nat. 

 Hist. Ireland, iv, p. 126 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. (Ed. 2) i, p. 320 (Ed. 3) i, p. 495 ; 

 Guichen, Explor. Alger. Poiss. p. 83. 



Labrus exoletus, Retz. Faun. Suec. p. 335. 



Labrus mi.c/us, Kroyer, Dan. Fiske, i, p. 496, c. fig. 



Three-spotted wrass, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, iii, p. 36, pi. cxxvii. 



Yarrell in his third edition of British Fishes observes that this is the female 

 of L. mixtus. 



Varieties of female. 



Labrus bimaculatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 477 ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1289 ; Bonn. 

 Atl. Ich. p. 112; Lacep. iii, p. 439; Bl. Schn. p. 261; Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 502 ; 

 Risso, Ich. Nice, p. 227 ; Turton, Brit. Fauna, p. 99 ; Jenyns, Manual, p. 396. 



Bimaculated wrasse, Pennant, Brit. Zool. (Ed. 1776) iii, p. 247 (Ed. 1812) iii, 

 p. 355. 



Labrus quadrimaculatus, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii, p. 302. 



(Monstrosity.) 



[. i brus vetula, Yarrell, Brit. Fish. (Ed. 1) i, p. 284, c. fig. ; Jenyns, Manual, 

 p. 395 (not Bloch). 



Acantholabrus Yarrellii, Cuv. and Val. xiii, p. 253 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. (Ed. 2) 

 i, p. 339 ( I'M. 3) i. p. 516; White, Catal. p. 25. 



Sea-wife, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, iii, p. 37. 



Nilsson (iv, p. 27.'!) first suggested that this fish was a monstrosity of Tj. mixtus 

 in which three of the soft rays had become transformed into spines. The type 

 appears to have been lost. 



B. v, D. n 1 ;;!",, V. 17, V. 1/5, A. t - a_, C. 13-15, L. 1. 50-60, L. tr. 

 5-7/17-21, Vert. 18/21. 



Length of head 3J to 3f, of caudal fin 7j to 8, height of body 4y to 4f in the 

 total length. Eye — diameter -">' in the length of the bead, 2 to 2| diameters 

 from the end o\' the snoui, and 1 } apart. Body father compressed, snout 



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