PLATE 48 
PLATE LXXIV. 
LABRUS LINEATUS. 
STREAKED WRASSE. 
* PISCES THORACIC!. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Teeth acute : lips simple : branchiostegous membrane with about 
six rays, and scaly covers : dorsal fin, with a slender skin beyond the 
*nd of each ray ; pectoral fin acuminated : lateral line straight. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
f'ins greenish, dorsal one ramentous : body green, with numerous 
yellowish longitudinal lines. 
Labrus LINEATUS : pinnls viridescentibus dorsali ramentacea, cor- 
pore viridi lineis longitudinalibus flavescentibus 
numerosis. 
behave sought in vain among the best Ichthyological writers 
a satisfactory description of our Labms lineatus. It is a fish of 
^^autifui figure, and eminently interesting, if considered only as a 
British acquisition ; but when it is further ascertained to be in all 
*®^onable probability a nondescript species, we are still more disposed 
