Class IV. COOK WRASSE. 541 



[Among drawings of fishes caught near Pen- 

 zance, the editor has received one of a species 

 of Wrasse, called at Cornwall the Cuckoo fish, 

 and which may probably be the Cook Wrasse of 

 Ray. The head is large, and slopes rapidly to 

 the nose ; the mouth large ; the lips fleshy ; 

 the teeth few and sharp ; the pupil of the eye 

 dark, the irides yellow ; the dorsal fin straight, 

 the rays extending rather beyond the web, and 

 are thirty-one in number, twenty-two of which 

 appear soft, and are of a yellow color ; the fore 

 part of the fin a bright blue tipt with yellow ; 

 the color of the head blue, mottled with oliva- 

 ceous ; the same tints extend to about one- 

 third of the upper part of the back, and below 

 the lateral line to the tail, which is slightly 

 rounded ; the remainder of the back deep 

 orange, the belly of a lighter shade; the tail 

 azure; the anal and ventral fins yellow, tipt 

 with blue; the upper part of the pectoral fin 

 blue ; the lower yellow. This species is said 

 to grow to the length of one foot. Ed. 



