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seems to confound with the true Scirena or Maigre, the latter 

 not being otherwise mentioned in his work. He describes it 

 as having a pointed snout and large mouth; the teeth rough 

 in the jaws, but none in the palate. Nostrils wide; on the 

 lower jaw five pores, and eight on the upper. From the head 

 to the dorsal fin a beautiful light blue, with lines or streaks 

 from the middle of the back obliquely forward, and alternately 

 dusky and pale blue, growing paler in their descent. Fin 

 rays of the tail yellow, becoming black near the end, the 

 lowermost altogether black; ventral fins as if dipped in ink. 



Fin rays first dorsal nine or ten, second dorsal twenty-three, 

 pectoral fifteen, ventral six, of which the first is a spine, anal 

 eight, the first also spinous. 



