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Crenilabrus luscus, the Labrus luscus of Couch's fishes of Cornwall, 

 described and figured in the fifth volume of Loudon'sMagazine of Nat. 

 Hist. (Scale-rayed Wrasse, Yarr.) it cannot well be confounded, the 

 proportions of the bodies of the two fish being very different, and the 

 formula of the fin rays dissimilar. The corkwing of that able ich- 

 thyologist is evidently, from the wood-cut given, the same as the 

 Goldsinny of M. Yarrell, who indeed quotes it as a synonym, and 

 M. Jenyns's Labrus Cornubicus, in the manual of Br. Vert. Animals, 

 is descriptive of the same fish, and not of the Goldsinny of Jago, al- 

 though Ray's authority is quoted first. In its general form it ap- 

 proaches nearest to the Crenilabrus tinea, Yarr. (Gilthead,) but 

 this fish is destitute of the two black spots, so conspicuous in the 

 other ; the number of the fin rays is also different, and the margins 

 of the preopercle in the Gilthead are more strongly denticulated. 

 The following is a description of the specimen in my possession, with 

 a correct outline engraving of the natural size. 



Description. Length, six inches and three-quarters. — Gene- 

 ral form resembling that of Crenilabrus tinea. Length of head 

 alone, to head and body without the caudal rays, as one to 

 three. Greatest depth of the body, exclusive of fin, about two 

 inches, or rather more than a third of the length of the body. 

 Thickness contained about twice and a-half in the depth. Dorsal 

 line rounded, falling regularly, and continuous with the profile, 

 with little or no depression at the nape. Jaws equal, teeth pro- 

 minent, the anterior middle ones rather large, their tops bending 

 inwards, about eighteen above, and twenty below ; a second row of 

 smaller ones behind in each jaw. Eyes rather large, placed 

 high up near to the line of profile. Preopercle scaled, the ascend- 

 ing line strait, and finely denticulated, the under line slightly round- 

 ed. Opercle smooth, slightly sinuated below, emarginate above. 

 Forehead smooth, lateral line following the contour of the body till 

 it approaches the base of the dorsal fin, where it suddenly bends down, 

 and is then continued in a strait line to the middle of the base of the 

 caudal fin. The scales large, and thirty-five or thirty-six in number 

 longitudinally. Dorsal and pectoral fins commencing upon the same 

 line. Soft rays of the dorsal fin ending a little beyond the line of the 

 terminating rays of the anal fin. Spiny rays of the dorsal rather short 

 and nearly all of the same length, the soft rays longer and rounded. 

 Pectoral fins larsje, rounded. Ventral fins with an elongated scale 

 between them. The number of fin rays. 



D. 18 + 9. P. 14. V. 1+5. A. 3 + 8. C. 15 and 2 short. 



Colour. The general colour of the specimen I received when first 

 found, was described as being of a rich pink or rose-colour, inter- 



