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SCLENID.E. 



The head is short and blunt ; the irides silvery, the pupil 

 black ; the upper jaw considerably the longest ; three large 

 mucous pores near the point of the nose ; under jaw flat, 

 marked with four mucous pores near its extremity, and with 

 a single short and thick cirrus, or barbule, at the symphysis : 

 the teeth very small, numerous, and arranged in a broad band 

 in each jaw ; none on the palate nor on the tongue : preoper- 

 culum denticulated while young, but these markings are 

 sometimes obliterated by age ; operculum ending in a spine, 

 and a flattened point directed backwards. The fin-rays are : 



D. 1022 : P. 17 : V. 1 +6 : A. 2 + 7 : C. 17. 



The lateral line parallel with, but much nearer, the dorsal 

 line than in the Maigre ; the scales large and rhomboidal ; 

 the ground colour of the body yellowish, traversed obliquely 

 from the back downwards and forwards with bands of silver 

 and blue ; the belly white ; dorsal fins brown, the second fin 

 marked with two bars ; pectoral and ventral fins nearly black ; 

 anal fin red. The figure of the fish is taken from the Fauna 

 Italica, that of the cranium from Rosenthal. 



