THE 
VARIEGATED WRASSE. 
Generic Character. 
Mouth retradtile : lips thick and revolute. 
Specific Character , &c. 
Dulky-red Labrus, whitilh beneath, with blue 
variegations and rounded tail. 
Var. Whitifli Labrus, variegated with red, orange, 
and blue, the variegations on the body 
fiexuous, on the fins fpotted. 
Ancient WRASSE ? 
Pennant Brit. Zool. p. 214. pi. 47. No. 115. 
The fpecies in the two genera of Spariis and Labrus 
are, according to Linnaeus, notfo eafily diftingui filed 
as might be wiffiied; fince exclufive of the ftrong 
affinity between the genera, many of the fpecies vary 
much in color. It mull likewife be added that even 
the Linnasan charaifters of thefe genera feem to be 
involved in great obfeurity; a part of the generic 
character of Sparus conlifting in the rounded fhape 
of the pedtoral fins, (pinna petilorales rotundata) 
while thofe of the genus Labrus are exprefsly faid to 
be acuminata. Now the very reverfe of this being 
really the cafe in moll of the fpecies, I am therefore 
inclined 
