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snout, and more especially by the absence of the ocellated 

 spots behind the eyes, as well as by the much smaller size of 

 the tendrils or cirri near the nostrils. Some marks are rep- 

 resented in Gonan's figure of this fish, but they appear only 

 as faint stripes, and I have seen marks which appeared like 

 them in only one individual, from which our description of 

 the colours of this fish were taken. In another example the 

 general colour approached to orange red, varied only in 

 becoming paler on the lower surface; and in a third the 

 anterior parts were dark brown, lighter, and approaching to 

 yellow on the hindward part of the body, with two crimson 

 lines running from behind the eyes downward to the sucking- 

 organ. But the most beautiful of these examples was all over 

 of a dusky red; the iris of the eyes with red radiations from 

 the pupil. Two broad vermilion stripes on the cheeks, one 

 from the eve obliquely backward, and another from the side 

 of the head to the side of the sucker; pale vermilion bands 

 across the back in front of the dorsal fin, which fin is dark, 

 with six round bright vermilion spots along its root. Anal 

 fin lively vermilion with a dusky border. The tail is round, 

 and in the first-mentioned example the central rays were much 

 lengthened. 



