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FISHES. ACANTHOPT. 
JULIS. 
the irides yellow ; the dorsp.l fin straight, the rays extending rather beyond 
the web, and are thirty-one in number, twenty-two of which appear soft, and 
ar^ of a yellow colour ; the fore part of the fin a bright blue, tipt with yel- 
low^ ; the colour of the head blue, mottled with olivaceous ; the same tints 
extend to about one-third of the upper part of the back, and below the late- 
ral line to the tail, which is slightly rounded ; the remainder of the back 
deep orange, the belly of a lighter shade ; the tail azure ; the anal and ven- 
tral fins yellow, tipt with blue ; the upper part of the pectoral fin blue ; the 
lower yellow. This species is said to grow to the length of one foot,” iii, 
341. 
Gen. LXV. JULIS. — Cheeks and gill-covers destitute of 
scales. 
H 134. J. vulgaris. — Above fuscous-green : beneath white, 
with a fulvous dentated stripe on each side ; two fore-teeth 
longest. 
Labrus Julis, Linn. Syst. i. 476. Don Brit. Fishes, t. xciv — Corn- 
wall. 
Length 7 inches. Form elongated. D. P. 12, V. L A. jf, C. 13. A 
specimen procured by Miss Pocock, on the coast of Cornwall, in 1802, was 
communicated to Mr Donovan. — It is common in the Mediterranean. 
Gen. LXVI. BRAMA.— Teeth slender, numerous ; front 
abrupt. Breadth of the dorsal and anal fins extended at 
their commencement. Tail lunate. 
135. B. warma.— Bluish silvery; two teeth in the lower 
jaw produced. 
B. mar. cauda forcipata, Johnson.^ Will. Ich. 17* — Toothed Gilt-head, 
Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. 243. Mont. Lin. Trans, vii. 292. — Spams Raii, 
Don. Brit. Fishes, t. xxxvii. — Rare on the English coast.— Occasion- 
ally in the Frith of Forth. 
Length upwards of 2 feet, depth about 1 foot ; slender towards the taiL 
The dorsal and anal fins extended. D. 37, P- 24, V. 7, A. 31, C. 25. This 
species has received by different authors various appellations. It is Spams 
Raii of Bloch, S. castaneola of Lacepede, S. Raii and S. castaneola of Shaw, 
S. niger of Turton, and S. dentatus of Stewart. 
As connected with this section, the Ch^todox noticed in Cornwall by Mr 
Couch, merits a place, though too imperfectly described, to permit its inser- 
tion in any of the modern genera into which that group is now divided. 
Only one specimen of this genus has come within my notice. This was 
taken at Looe, swimming alive on the surface of the water, in August 1821 ; 
and as I have not been able to refer it to any described species, I subjoin a 
description : It was about 17 inches long, and, exclusive of the dorsal fin, 
5^ inches deep ; the snout was blunt, sloping suddenly above the eyes ; the 
angle of the mouth depressed ; the teeth numerous, sharp, incurved, four in 
front of the under jaw very long ; the body deep, thin ; two dorsal fins, the 
first having flexible rays ; the second long and narrow ; tail very deeply 
lunafeed ; the pectorals long ; the ventrals double, or having a wing, by which 
means it seemed to have four ventral fins ; the anal fleshy, and. somewhat 
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