338 GIBBOUS WRASSE. Class IV. 



of greenish olive, and the same of most elegant 

 blue ; the back and belly red • but the last of a 

 much paler hue, and under the throat almost 

 yellow ; along the beginning of the back-fin 

 was a broad bed of rich blue ; the middle part 

 white ; the rest red ; at the base of the pectoral 

 fins was a dark olive spot ; the ends of the anal 

 fin, and ventral fins, a fine blue ; the upper half 

 of the tail blue; the lower part of its rays 

 yellow. 



6. Gibbous. Labvus gibbus. Gm. Lin. Sparus gibbus. Shaw Gen. 

 1295. Zool. iv. pari ii. 46l. 



JL HIS species was taken off Anglesey: its 

 Descrip- length was eight inches; the greatest depth 

 three ; it was of a very deep and elevated form, 

 the back being vastly arched, and very sharp 

 or ridged. From the beginning of the head to 

 the nose, was a steep declivity ; the teeth like 

 those of the others ; the eyes of a middling size ; 

 above each a dusky semilunar spot; the near- 

 est cover of the gills finely serrated. The six- 

 teen first rays of the back fin strong and spiny, 

 the other nine soft and branched ; the pectoral 

 fins consisted of thirteen; the ventral of six 

 rays ; the first ray of the ventral fin was strong 



TION. 



