The northern forms of _Labridæ_ are known as wrasse on the coasts of England. Among these are _Labrus bergylta_, the ballan wrasse; _Labrus viridis_, the green wrasse; _Labrus ossiphagus_, the red wrasse; and _Labrus merula_, the black wrasse. _Acantholabrus palloni_ and _Centrolabrus exoletus_ have more than three anal spines. The latter species, known as rock cook, is abundant in western Norway, as far north as Throndhjem, its range extending to the northward beyond that of any other Labroid. Allied to these, on the American coast, is the tautog or blackfish, _Tautoga onitis_, a common food-fish, dusky in color with excellent white flesh, especially abundant on the coast of New England. With this, and still more abundant, is the cunner or chogset, _Tautogolabrus adspersus_, greenish-blue in color, the flesh being also more or less blue. This fish is too small to have much value as food, but it readily takes the hook set for better fishes. [Illustration: FIG. 319.—Capitaine or Hogfish, _Lachnolaimus falcatus_. Florida. ] In the Mediterranean are found many species of _Crenilabrus_, gaily colored, each species having its own peculiar pattern and its own arrangement of inky spots. Among these are _Crenilabrus mediterraneus_, _Crenilabrus pavo_, and _Crenilabrus griseus_. With these are the small species called _Ctenolabrus rupestris_, the goldsinny, much like the American cunner, and the long-nosed _Symphodus scina_. Of the many West Indian species we may notice the Capitaine or hogfish, _Lachnolaimus maximus_, a great fish, crimson in color, with its fin spines ending in long streamers; _Bodianus rufus_, the Spanish ladyfish or pudiano, half crimson, half golden. _Halichæres radiatus_, the pudding-wife (a mysterious word derived from "oldwife" and the Portuguese name, pudiano), a blue fish handsomely mottled and streaked. Of the smaller species, _Clepticus parræ_, the janissary, with very small teeth, _Halichœres bivittatus_, the slippery-dick, ranging northward to Cape Hatteras, and _Doratonotus megalepis_, of an intense grass-green color, are among the most notable. The razor-fish, _Xyrichthys psittacus_, red, with the forehead compressed to a sharp edge, is found in the Mediterranean as well as throughout the West Indies, where several other species of razor-fish also occur. [Illustration: FIG. 320.—Razor-fish, _Xyrichthys psittacus_ (Linnæus). Tortugas, Fla. ] [Illustration: FIG. 321.—Redfish (male), _Pimelometopon pulcher_ (Ayres). San Diego. ] [Illustration: FIG. 322.—_Lepidaplois perditio_ (Quoy & Gaimard). Wakanoura, Japan. ]