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Tli REE-SPOTTED WEASS. 
Trimaculaied Wrass, 
Lahriis trimaculatus, 
“ carneus, 
fMhre Iripletaclie, 
Lahrue trimaeulalus, 
ti ♦ {( 
ft if 
Donovan; pi. 49. 
Turtos’s Liiiiiaeus. Ouvieb, 
Bloch. 
Risso. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 396. 
Yarreli. ; Br. Fishes, vol i, p. 320. 
Guntiieu; Cat. Bf. M., vol. iv. 
This is also a common fish, as Avell in the Mediterranean 
as on the west and south coasts of England and Ireland; it 
is also mentioned by Nilsson as met with in Sweden; but it 
is rare in Scotland, and is only of casual occurrence in the 
Orkney Islands. 
Its habits and food resemble those of the Cook; and indeed 
it is the opinion of Nilsson and Dr. Gunther that it is the 
female of the last-named species; a fact which future observation 
must decide. It spawns in April or May, and on the second 
day of the last-mentioned month an individual was examined 
that proved to he a sharer of both sexes. The mature roe 
passed from it on slight pressure, but, on cutting the body 
open, while one lobe was found nearly empty, the other was 
far short of perfection, and a lobe of milt, in the same con- 
dition, lay with them. 
This fish reaches the length of eight or nine inches; the 
shape rather lengthened, plump, moderately compressed, not so 
robust as in the Cook, which in outline it generally resembles. 
Head lengthened before the eyes; jaws equal; lips fl.eshy; teeth 
in the upper jaw numerous, those in the front large, separate, 
curved, projecting; in the lower jaw the two corner teeth in 
front like the upper front teeth, the others small. Body 
covered with scales as in the others of this family; lateral line 
descending gradually opposite the termination of the dorsal fin. 
