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a wide foliated border. Lateral line arched to the place 

 where it comes near the pectoral fin, and from thence straight. 

 The dorsal fin begins opposite the margin of the anterior eye, 

 the rays bordered with a wing, and the connecting membrane 

 deeply cut in; both it and the anal fin pass far back to the 

 root of the tail, and then pass under it. Colour dusky yellow, 

 in some examples deeper or reddish, with numerous irregular 

 spots on the head, body, and fins, (mostly brown, but some 

 light,) and round the borders of the body a series of large 

 spots irregularly ocellated; sclerotic portion of the eye brown, 

 and spotted, the margin bright yellow; under side white, 

 tinged with red. The pectoral fin below smallest. Dorsal fin 

 with ninety rays; anal seventy-two, bifid near their ends; 

 upper pectoral fourteen, below twelve; ventrals above seven, 

 below six; caudal seventeen, the middlemost longest. The 

 tongue is almost conical, pointed, free. 



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