Class IV. BIMACULATED WRASSE. 247 



The tail was rounded at the end ; at the bot- 

 tom, for about a third part of the way, between 

 each ray was a row of fcales. 



The color in general was yellow, fpotted with 

 orange. 



Labrus bimaculata. L. pinna Sciaena bimaculata. Mus. Ad. ^'7* ^^^a» 



dorfali ramentacea, macula Fred. I. 66. tab. XXXI. culated. 



fufca in latere medio, et fig. 66. 

 ad caudam. Un, fyji. 477. 



MR. Brunnich obferved this fpecies at Pen- 

 zance^ and referred me to Linnaus's defcrip- 

 tion of it in the Mufeum Ad, Fred, where it is de- 

 fcribed under the name of Sci^na Bimaculata. 



The body is pretty deep, and of a light color, Descriec 

 marked in the middle on each fide with a round 

 brown fpot ; on the upper part of the bafe of the 

 tail is another : the lateral line is incurvated. 



The branchioftegous rays are fix in number*: 

 the firft fifteen rays of the dorfal fin are fpiny ^ the 



• LinnauSf in his laft edition, has removed this fpecies 

 from the genus of Sciana, to that of Labrus, though it does 

 not agree with the lafl in his number of branchioftegous 



R 4 other 



