PLATE XLIX. 
LabrUs TRiMAcutATUs : ruber, maculis 2 utrlrwjue ad basin pinnse 
dorsalis, tertiaque inter hanc et caudam. Crnial' 
Syst. Nat. 1294. Sp. 51. 
Labrus Carneus, Le Paon Rouge. Bloch t. 289. 
Trimaculated Wrasse. Penn. Brit. Zool. V. 3. p. 207. n. 4. 
In the month of June, 1801, Mrs. Wyatt, a lady resident in Devon- 
shire, most obligingly favoured us with a fine specimen of this inte- 
resting Fish, that had been caught on the south coast of that county* 
near Exmouth. 
The length of the specimen is almost twelve inches : its form i® 
graceful, and the colours, when recent, were peculiarly elegant an^ 
lovely. A fine orange varying to red upon the back, and becoming 
paler and whiter towards the belly, is the chief and most pervading 
colour. The dorsal fin and tail were of a rich orange : die former 
was also strongly marked with dark purplish black, and prettily edged 
with blue ; and the rest of the fins were of a paler hue. The thre? 
dark spots at the posterior extremity of the back, which principsliy 
constitutes the specifical. distinction of this kind of Wrasse, were of ^ 
rich blackish purple. There were also four other spots of a delicate 
rose colour, situated contiguous* to these, which do not appear tr) 
have been mentioned by any writer. Two of these spots a'C 
disposed -in the space between the three darker ones before spoke'' 
of, and the third and fourth' are placed ‘one at each extremity 
of the outermost ones, so as to form together a series of seven 
spots, which are alternately of a pale rose colour, or a very deep 
purple. 
