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LABRICIITHYS PARILA. 
Tautoga Parila, Rich., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1850, p. 7p. 
Rich., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1851, 
vol. vii., p. 286. 
The head is silvery, marked with brown ; the body of a 
silvery white, with each scale broadly bordered with chocolate- 
brown. On some specimens there are large blotches of this 
last colour on each side of the body ; the fins are of a light 
brown ; the anal spotted with white. 
LABRICHTHYS BOSTOCKII. 
This sort enters in Dr. Gunther's division B, characterised 
by : cheeks with only one or two series of small scales. 
I at first thought it was Labrus Tetricus of Eichardson ; 
but I believe it is distinct ; the caudal in my species when 
moderately opened is truncated, but, it is true, that when 
entirely opened it takes a somewhat rounded appearance, the 
upper ray being always longer than the others ■ the dorsal 
and anal are rather prolongated at their posterior end, and not 
rounded as in Richardson's figure ; the arbuscules of the 
lateral line are also more complicated in Bostockii • the colour 
of the vertical fins is described in Tetricus as having a fine 
blackish edge, and the pectoral as having a black spot over 
their base ; neither of these exist in the new species. There 
is a small posterior canine tooth; two anterior large canine 
ones at each jaw ; cheeks with a double series of very indis- 
tinct scales, and the largest portion being naked ; as in many 
other species the head is covered with small tubercules ; the 
operculum scaly ; the colour after having been in spirits is of 
an uniform dark purplish red ; the fins are lighter, and the base 
of the dorsal black ; the scales are large disposed on twenty-five 
transverse series ; the height of the body is contained a little 
over three times in the total length. 
The specimen is seven and a-half inches long. 
LABRICHTHYS EDELENSIS. 
This species is very nearly allied to Lab. Punctulata, Gunth., 
and has also the scales of the operculum as large as those of 
