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pink at the base, the latter tipped with bright red ; 

 the anal fin yellowish green, edged with bright red, 

 and with two indistinct dark bands across the ante- 

 rior tip. The tail, deeply forked, is dull yellow ; 

 there is a central longitudinal band or stripe of dull 

 light blue, succeeded across each lobe by three others 

 of a similar colour and equidistant, and terminated 

 by the tips, also blue. The eye is large and coloured 

 yellow. 



D. 11— P. 13— V. 9— A. 10— Br. 4— Ribs, 19 pairs- 

 Vert, 38. 



BEAUTIFUL SALMON-CARP. 



Procliilodus insignis. 



PLATE XXX. 



L. Geral, Geraki. Scliomh. Drawings, No. 26. 



" This fish inhabits the Eio Branco, where it is 

 plentiful and esteemed for food. It is killed by 

 the arrows, as it will not take bait, and in its gene- 

 ral manners resembles Plate XXVIII. Its colour 

 is a silvery blue, inclining to rose on the belly. 

 Head greenish, eyes yellow and red. The lips are 

 fleshy and formed for sucking ; ventral fins situate 

 under the dorsal; gill-lid smooth, the opening 



