TION. 



COMBER WRASSE. Class IV. 



g. Comber. Comber Cornub. Rati syn. Labrus comber. Gm. Lin. 

 pise. 1 63. Jig. 5? 1297. 



JL RECEIVED this species from Cornwall, 

 and suppose it to be the Comber of Mr. Jago. 

 Descrip- It was of a slender form. The dorsal fin 

 had twenty spiny , eleven soft rays ; the pec- 

 toral fourteen ; the ventral five ; the anal three 

 spiny, seven soft ; the tail round ; the color of 

 the back, fins, and tail, red ; the belly yellow ; 

 beneath the lateral line ran parallelly a smooth, 

 even stripe from gill to tail, of a silvery color. 



Besides these species, we recollect seeing 

 taken at the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, a 

 most beautiful kind of a vivid green, spotted 

 with scarlet; and others at Bandooran, in the 

 county of Sligo, of a pale green.* We were at 

 that time inattentive to this branch of natural 

 history, and can only say they were of a species 

 we have never since seen. 



* This may perhaps be the streaked Wrasse figured by Mr. 

 Donovan, in his History of British Fishes, tab. 74, of which he 

 gives the following specific character: " Fins greenish, dorsal 

 one ramentous ; body green, with numerous yellowish longitu- 

 dinal lines." It is said to be an occasional visitor to the coast of 

 Cornwall, in the summer season. Ed. 



