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others moft beautifully ftriped, efpecially about the 
head, with the richeft colors, fuch as blue, red, and 
yellow. Moft of this genus are fubject to vary; 
therefore care muft be taken not to multiply the 
fpecies from thefe accidental teints, but to attend to 
the form which never alters. 
The Welch call this filh Gwrach, or the old wo- 
man; the French, la Vieille ; and the Engh; oive it 
the name of Old Wife. Why they all agree in thefe 
fynonyms it is difficult to aflign a reafon, except one 
too ill-bred and malignant to pollute our page. 
Il. The BBMACULATED WRASSE. 
Labrus bimaculata. L. pinna adcaudam. Lin. fif. 477. 
dorfali ramentacea, macula Scizna bimaculata. Mus. Ad. 
fufca in latere medio, et Fred. 1. 66. tab. xxxi. fig. 66. 
R. Brunnich obferved this {pecies at Penzance, 
and referred me to Linnus’s defcription of it 
inthe Mufeum Ad. Fred. where itis defcribed under 
the name of Sciena Bimaculata. 
The body is pretty deep, and of a light color, 
marked in the middle om each fide with a round 
brown fpot; on the upper part of the bafe of the 
tail is another: the lateral line 1s incurvated. 
The branchioftegous rays are fix in number * : the 
firft fifteen rays of the dorfal fin are fpiny ; the other 
eleven foft, and lengthened by a fkinny appendage : 
the pectoral fins. confift of fifteen rays; the ventral 
* Linneus, in his laft edition, has removed this fpecies from 
the genus of Sciena, to that of Labrus, tho’ it does not agree 
with the lait in 4is number of branchioitegous rays. , 
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