du Nord, this fifh is given as a fpecies of Labrus.* 
It feems very nearly allied to the fpecies which Mr, 
Pennant in his Britiih Zoology has called the Striped 
JVraffe. The genera of Sparus and Labrus are both 
remarkable for the vivid colours which frequently a- 
dorn the fpecies belonging to them. Moft of them 
are natives of the extra-Britannic feas ; but the ftriped 
WralfeofMr. Pennant, to which this fifh is fo nearly 
allied, has been fometimes caught on our own coafts. 
Where the individual fpecimen was taken, from which 
this figure was copied, and which is now in the Le- 
verian Mufeum, I have not been able to learnbut 
there is reafon for fuppofing it to be a Britifh fifh. 
It is reprefented about half the fize of the fpeci¬ 
men itfelf. 
It is fingular that no fpecies either of Sparus or 
Labrus has yet been figured in the fuperb Icthyology 
of Dr. Bloch ; efpecially as there are not wanting nu¬ 
merous figures of thefe fifh in the works of feveral 
authors, from whom he might have copied them with 
the fame eafe that he has done thofe of a great many 
other fifties introduced in the courfeofhis Work. 
* And perhaps it is really rather a Labrus than a Sparus. 
