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LABRUS VARIEGATUS. 
STRIPED IVRASSE. 
* PISCES TIIORACICI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Teeth acute: lips simple: branchiostegous membrane, with six 
^ys, and scaly covers : dorsal fin, with a slender skin beyond the 
®nd of each ray ; pectoral acuminated ; lateral line straight. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Red, with four lateral parallel olive stripes, and an equ^ number 
blue ones. 
Labrus Variegatus : ruber, striis lateralibus parallelis olivaceis 4, 
totidemque caruleis. Gmel. Linn. Syst. 
Nat. T.\. p. 3. p. 1294. sp. 58. 
^1'Riped Wrasse. Penn. Brit. Zool. T. 3. p. 207. n. 4. 
Tile Striped Wrasse does not appear to be described by any of 
continental writers on Natural History, except Gmelin, in the 
I . . ^ 
t edition of the Linnsan Systema Naturae, and even there it is 
