98 FISHES. THORACIC!. 19. Labrus* 



59. Sp. Pagrus, Rose-red, with longitudinal stripes of 

 a deeper red : near the gill co\ers each side 2 black 

 spots. ; 



Red Gilthead. Br. Zool. n. 113. Block t. 267. 



Body about the size of the last, covered with large fcales ; eyes 

 large, silvery : skin at the end of the dorfal and anal fins gathered 

 up and hiding the last rays : moutk and tongue fine red : belly silvery, 

 slightly marked with longitudinal yellowish streaks ; tail forked. 



60. Sp. Dentex. Body reddish varied with brown: in each 

 jaw 4 teeth larger than the rest. 



Four-toothed Gilthead. Donovan's Fishes t. 73. 



Body gtowing to a large size, varying much in colour, fometimes 

 fpotted and streaked with black: back reddish; tail fcaly at the 

 bafe : dorfal-fin 20-rayed ; pectoral 12; ventral 5; anal 10 ; caudal 

 19-rayed'. 



61. Sp. niger. Above black, beneath s ilvery : back with 

 a silvery stripe along the base of the dorsal-fin : dor* 



l sal and anal-tins clothed with silvery scales. 



! Toothed Gilthead. Br. Zool t. 43. Linn. Trans. 7. p. 292. 



• Taken in Swanfea Bay Nov.; 12, 1836. 



Body 2 feet long, 9 inches deep, very much compressed, rounded 

 on the forepart of the back, covered with large firm angular fcales 

 placed, in anjaexagonal manner : head much rounded and sloping in 

 front : mouth oblique .downwards : jaws. nearly equal : teeth a single 

 row of incurved larger-ones and a row or two of fmaller-ones in 

 ; each jaw, besides a short longitudinal mafs of obtufe ones. on each 

 side in the palate of the upper-jaw: eyervery large, distant ; fris 

 white : gill-covers of 2 pieces ; the apertures very large, membrane 

 7-raye.d : lateral-line obfolete : vent in the middle, between the vcn-» 

 tral and anal-fins : fins all covered with silvery fcales at the bafe : 

 dorsal falcate, the first 7 rays very high, 34-rayed, and like the anal 

 clothed with silvery imbricate fcales placed longitudinally; the rays 

 ending in short fafcicular processes : pectoral pointed, 20-rayed : 

 ventral pointed, 6-rayed, with a fmalle.r fupplemen.tal one at the sides 

 covered with silvery fcales : anal fomewhat falcate, 28-rayed : the 

 . .rays, ending in sbprt fafcicular processes : tail black, forked, with 

 pointed lobes, 24-rayedo 



19. LABRUS. Wrasse. 

 %2; L. gibhus: Variegated blue and orange : dorsal and 

 anal-fins green spotted with black . 



Gibbous Wrasse. Penn. Brit. Zool.iiiJ. 46, , 



Body about 8 inches long, size of a perch, but more gibbous on 

 the back, covered with large fcales : head sloping ; above each eye 

 ■ a dusky femilunar fpot : first gill-cover finely ferrate : pecto/al-fxns 

 yellow, tranfverfely striped with' red at the bafe : ventral and caudal 

 fea-green: dorfal-fin ,25-rayedj pectoral 13 -^ventral 6; anal 13 ; 

 tail large, 15-rayed. - ■ 



63. L: Tinea. Yellowish, variegated with blue, and 

 spotted with red : fins red, spotted with white : lips 

 reflected : dorsal-fin ranientaceous. 



Ancient Wrasse, Old Wife. Br. Zool. t. 44. Ddnov. t. 83. 



Body 1 5-18 inches long, of a rather bulky form, with a dusky hue 

 on the back," and variegated with blue red and yellow : fins edged 

 with brown: lips large, reflected, retractile : teeth in. 2 rows, the 

 first row conic : gill-covers with radiate depressions under the 

 fcales: above the nofe a deep furrow: threat With two tubercled 

 bones above, and one below : dorfal-fin 36-rayed • pectoral 14 j ven- 

 tral 6; anal 12; tail 14-rayed. 



