THE 
BIFASCIATED LABRUS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Teeth strong and subacute: the grinders some¬ 
times convex and crowded: Ups thick and 
doubled: rays of the dorsal jin., in some 
species, elongated into soft processes. 
Gill-covers unarmed and scaly. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Glaucous LABRUS, with rufous head, body 
marked in front by two transverse brown 
bands, and tail by a brown crescent. 
Das doppelband. 
Bloch ichth. pi. 283. 
The bifasciated Labrus is a native of the Indian seas, 
and generally measures about twelve inches in length. 
