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figure and description have been taken. In length the example 

 described was six inches and a fourth, which is about the 

 usual dimensions; depth in front of the dorsal fin one inch 

 and five eighths, the outline rising from the front to the first 

 ray of that fin. The body compressed, covered with scales 

 of moderate size, not easily lost; under jaw projecting; 

 mystache broad, slightly bent, reaching half way to the eye; 

 gape very moveable. Eye large and prominent. Teeth 

 none in the jaws, minute on the tongue. Dorsal fin opposite 

 the ventrals, Avith eleven rays, as has also the anal, the two 

 last from one root. Pectorals free of the gill-covers, reaching 

 a little more than half way to the ventrals, with fourteen 

 rays; in the ventrals ten rays; adipose fin opposite the 

 termination of the anal, and consequently not far from the 

 tail. Tail broadly forked, with twenty rays. Colour of the 

 back brown, the sides tinged with yellow; above the hindmost 

 part of the eye golden; faint lines of yellow along the sides, 

 but over the whole and on the cheeks a brilliant white. Mr. 

 Yarrell says that the dorsal fin and upper portion of the sides 

 were a fine green, which may have vanished from my examples; 

 pectoral and ventral fins yellow. There are about sixty-eight 

 pores along the lateral line. The figure of this fish as given 

 by Mr. Yarrell, as compared with three examples, is too 

 slender 



