Class IV. RAINBOW WRASSE. 343 



H 'lovXis. Arist. Hist, nat, dinali fulva utrinque dentata., 10. Raiit- 



lib. ix. c. 2. Milan. Hist. Gm. Lin. 1288. B0W - 



an. lib. ii. c. 44. Oppian. Arted. gen. 54. 



lib. i. Gronov. Zooph. 71. No. 241. 



Julis. Plin. Hist. nat. lib. Don. Hist. Br. Fishes, tab. 



32. c 9. 96. 



Belon 254. La Girdle. Bloch ichth. viii. 



Girello. Girella. Donzella. 114. tab. 287- 



Rondel. 180. Gesraer464. D<? la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



Xabrus Julis. L. lateribus ca> sons. iii. 497. 



rulescentibus; vitta longitu- 



[A WRASSE, apparently of this species, but 

 varying in color from those taken in the Medi- 

 terranean, is said to have been caught upon the 

 coast of Cornwall in the summer of 1 802. 



The Cornish specimen rather exceeded the Descrip- 

 length of seven inches ; it was of a slender, or 

 elongated form, and remarkable for the elegant 

 distribution of its colors, green, yellow, and pur- 

 ple, changeable in various directions of light ; a 

 broad dentated stripe extended from the head 

 nearly to the tail, the color of which was silvery 

 and fulvous ; the dorsal fin marked towards the 

 front with a black spot contained nine spiny and 

 thirteen soft rays ; the pectoral twelve rays ; the 

 ventral, one spiny, and five soft ; the anal two 

 spiny and thirteen soft ; the tail thirteen rays. 



