336 TRIMACULATED WRASSE. Class IV. 



the tail is another; the lateral line is incurvated. 

 The branchiostegous rays are six in number;* 

 the first fifteen rays of the dorsal fin are spiny ; 

 the other eleven soft, and lengthened by a 

 skinny appendage ; the pectoral fins consist of 

 fifteen rays ; the ventral of six ; the first spiny; 

 the second and third ending in a slender bristle; 

 the anal fin is pointed ; the four first rays being 

 short and spiny; the rest long and soft. 



4. Trimacu- Labrus trimaculatus. Gm. Lin. extremo dorsi. Ascan. icott. 



LATED - 1294. ii. 13. 



Labrus carneus maculis tribus Mull. prod. Zool. dan. 46. 

 nigris in fine pinnae dorsi et Le Paon rouge. Block ichih. 



ix. 3. tab. 289. 



J- HE species we examined was taken on the 

 coast of Anglesey ; its length was eight inches. 

 Descrip- It was of an oblong form ; the nose long ; 

 the teeth slender ; the fore teeth much longer 

 than the others ; the eyes large ; the branchio- 

 stegous rays, five ; the back fin consisted of 

 seventeen spiny rays, and thirteen soft ones ; 

 beyond each extended a long nerve ; the pec- 

 toral fins were round, and consisted of fifteen 



TION. 



* Linnasus, in his last edition, has removed this species from 

 the genus of Sciccna, to that of Labrus, though it does not agree 

 with the latter in his number of branchiostegous rays. 



