Color. 
208 «=6GIBBOUS WRASSE, ClaG IV, 
V. The GIBBOUS WRASSE 
HIS fpecies was taken off Anglefea: its leneth 
was eight inches; the greateft depth three: 
it was of a very deep and elevated form, the back 
being vaftly arched, and very fharp or ridged. 
From the beginning of the head to the’ nofe, was 
a fteep declivity. 
The teeth like thofe of the others. 
The eyes of a middling fize ; above each a dufky 
femilunar fpot. 
The neareft cover of the gills finely ferrated. 
The fixteen firft rays of the back ftrone and 
fpiny ; the other nine foft and branched. 
The pectoral fins confifted of thirteen, the ven- 
tral of fix rays; the firft ray of the ventral fin was 
ftrong and fharp. 
The anal fin confifted of fourteen rays, of which 
the three firft were ftronely aculeated. 
The tail was large, rounded at the end, and the 
rays branched; the ends of the rays extending bes 
yond the webs. 
The lateral line was incurvated towards the tail. 
The gill covers andbody covered with large fcales, 
The firft were moft elegantly fpotted, and ftriped 
with blue and orange, and the fides {potted in the 
fame manner; but neareft the back the orange was 
difpofed in ftripes: the back fin and anal fin were of 
afea green, fpotted with black. 
The 
