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seems to confound with the true Scisena 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. 



