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projection backwards of the lower angle, and 

 neither it nor the opercles are armed with teeth 

 or spines. The colours are a brownish violet, with 

 blue and red reflections ; the fins of a brownish 

 black. These are of middling size, except the 

 tail, and present nothing very remarkable. The 

 tail is expanding and very ample, considerably 

 forked. The length of the specimen taken at 

 Nice by M. Risso was about twenty inches. 



