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on the farthest cover of the gills is a depression 

 radiated from the center. It has only four 

 branchiostegous rays. The dorsal fin has 

 thirty-one rays, twenty spiny, eleven soft ; the 

 last branched, and much longer than the spiny 

 rays ; the pectoral fins fourteen ; the ventral 

 six ; the first of which is short and spiny ; the 

 anal twelve; the three first spiny, the nine 

 others branched and soft; the tail rounded at 

 the end ; at the bottom, for about a third part 

 of the way, between ' each ray is a row of 

 scales. The color, in general, is yellow, spot- 

 ted with orange. 



Labrus bimaculatus. L. pinna Fred. i. 66. tab. xxxi. Jig. 3, Bimacu- 



dorsali ramentacea, macula 66. latec. 



fusca in latere medio, et ad Le Labre double tache. De la 



caudam. Lin. Syst. ATJ. Cepede Hist, des Poissons, 



Gm. Lin. 12Sg. ill- 502. 



Scisena bimaculata. Mus. Ad. 



1>JlR. Brunnlch observed this species at Pen- 

 zance, and referred me to Linnaws description 

 of it in the Museum Ad. Fred, where it is de- 

 scribed under the name of Sckena Bimaculata. 



The body is pretty deep, and of a light color, Descrip- 

 marked in the middle on each side with a round 

 brown spot; on the upper part of the base of 



