262 BEAUTIFUL SALMON-CARP. 



semilunar. It has no teeth ; nostrils single, placed 

 between the eyes and snout, but nearer the top of 

 the head. The scaling is large, striated, elliptical, 

 adhesive, and slightly fringed; lateral line single, 

 straight; head and body slightly depressed; the 

 tongue fleshy, and attached to the lower jaw. It 

 lives only a few minutes after it has been taken out 

 of the water. The air-bag is double, and is pos- 

 sessed of a second stomach, which is generally filled 

 with fine clay. Length eleven inches and a half, 

 depth three inches and three-quarters." 



This is even more gaudily coloured than the last. 

 The colour above runs into streaks, pale but regu- 

 lar, as on the first described species. The anal fin 

 is deep lake, crossed, as in the last, anteriorly with 

 two dark bands, and having a third running through 

 the posterior angle. The tail is bright orange red, 

 and has the central dark stripe, with five narrow 

 equidistant black bands crossing each lobe. In 

 both the last fishes, the lateral line is nearly 

 straight. 



D. 9— P. 14— V. 8_A. 9_C. 22— Br. 4— Vert. 38. 



Our limits will not now allow us to proceed with 

 the Acanthopterigii, of which numerous species ac- 

 company the Collection ; and they, with the carti- 

 laginous fishes and a few insulated forms, will be 

 illustrated in another Volume. Before concluding, 

 however, we may remark, that our Arius ? ohesusy 



