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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW FISHES FROM 

 THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 



BY 



G. A. BOULENGER, F.E.S. 



CAESIO AXILLARIS. 



Depth of body 2| in total length, length of head 3f times. 

 Snout a little longer than diameter of eye, which is four 

 times in length of head and i^ in interorbital width ; least 

 width of preorbital -|- diameter of eye ; maxillary extending 

 to below anterior border of eye ; head everywhere densely 

 scaled, except on the snout, forehead, and chin, which are 

 naked. Gill- rakers long and slender, 22 on lower part of 

 anterior arch. Dorsal XI 12 ; spinous portion naked, soft 

 portion scaly at the base ; middle spines longest, f length of 

 head, longer than the soft rays. Pectoral falciform, slightly 

 longer than head. Ventral much shorter, not reaching vent. 

 Anal III II ; third spine longest, a little longer than soft 

 rays, which decrease in length to the last. Caudal crescentic, 

 scaly at the base. Caudal peduncle nearly twice as long as 

 deep. [Scales finely denticulate, 80^^^'', much larger below than 

 above the lateral line, which extends over 64 scales. Silvery, 

 tinged with yellow above ; a round deep black spot in the 

 axil. 



Total length 275 millimetres. 



Obtained in BuiFalo Bay (in False Bay), 8th October, 1898, 

 20 fathoms. Differs from Caesio lunar is, C. & V., which occurs 

 at the Cape, and which has also a black axillary spot, in the 

 smooth spinous dorsal fin, the third anal spine longer than the 

 second, and in the absence of black tips to the lobes of the 

 caudal fin. Besides, the scales on the head are much smaller 

 in C. axillaris than in C, lunaris. 



