502 Capt. Cakmichael's Description of 



sal fin eight- rayed. Second twenty-rayed. Pectoral fins rounded', 

 fifteen-rayed; five lowest rays simple, curved; the rest divided. 

 A'entral fins distant, five-rayed. Anal fin sixteen-rayed. Tail con- 

 vex. L. line raised, parallel with the back. Scales none. Colour 

 olive, marbled with green blotches and white dots. Skin mucous. 

 This fish is very common among the rocks, and takes the bait 

 greedily. Flesh delicate. 



4. Lacrus ornatus, olivaceus corpore pinnisque fasciis longi- 

 tudinalibus azureis. 



Tab. XXVII. 



Length eight inches. Body oblong, compressed. Head small, 

 naked. Mouth very small, armed with a single row of subulate 

 teeth. Eyes small ; iris flame-coloured. Cheeks scaly. G. mem- 

 brane five-rayed. Dorsal fin the length of the body, twenty-two- 

 rayed, a few of the anterior rays spinous. Pectoral fan-shaped, 

 twelve-rayed. Ventral six-rayed, lanceolate. Anal sixteen-rayed. 

 Tail rounded. Scales large, deciduous. L. line parallel with the 

 back. Colour olive, with four azure stripes along the sides, and 

 three along the dorsal and anal fins. Head variegated with azure 

 stripes; four bars of azure across the tail. Dorsal and pectoral 

 fins, with the upper half of the tail, purple. 



A very rare fish. Caught off the rocks. 



Flara of Tristan da Cnnha. 



1. AciENA SARMENTOSA, diaudra hermaphrodita, aristis qua- 

 tuor, capitulis globosis, foliolis argute serrato-incisis: supra 

 glabris venosis ; subtus sericeis, stipulis indivisis. 

 Ancistrum sarmentosum. Aubert du Petit Thouars Flore de 

 Tristan d'Aacgna, p. 44. in Melanges de Botanique. 



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