PLATE LXXIV. 
to congratulate the reader and ourselves upon its discovery. At first 
It was imagined this might be the species Lahriis viridis of Artedij 
but whicli we are now persuaded it is not. Neitlier is it of the same 
kind as the Japanese fish called by Bloch Labrus viridis. If it h® 
mentioned by any author it must be Pennant. We are not indeed 
entirely free from suspicion but that it really may be the pale grerfi 
Jbrasse alluded to by that author in his concluding observations on the 
genus Labrus, in his British Zoology, although the description left 
of that fish is confessedly too ambiguous to authorise any opinion. 
The passage in which we conjecture that it may be mentioned is as 
follows : “ Besides these species,” says our author, “ we recollect 
seeing taken at the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland, a most beautiful kind 
of a vivid green spotted with scarlet, and others at Bandooran in the 
county of Sligo of a pale green. We were at that time inattentive 
to this branch of natural history, and can only say they were of ® 
species we have never since seen.” This is the only instance i't 
which the pale green Wrasse is mentioned in his work, so that no- 
thing certain can be inferred from it. 
Our Labrus- lineatus is an occasional visitor, as we are credibly 
informed, to the coast of Cornwall, where it is provincia-lly knoWi* 
b y the name of green-fish : it usually appears In the summer, and i* 
esteemed the rarest species of its tribe by the fisliermen in those parts* 
The specimen now in our possession, and from which the figure I'' 
the accompanying plate is delineated, was taken on this coast a fevV 
yetus ago by Captain Bray. This specimen is seven inches Jong' 
and having been carefully divested of the flesh while perfectly 
fresh, and the skin well prepared, the natural colours of die fish at® 
admirably well retained. Besides this genuine British specimen, 
possess another in excellent preservation from the Mediterranean sesr 
