^66 TORGOCH OF LLANI5ERRIS. 



notice of specimens in our own possession, which were perfect 

 in all respects except as regards their colour. 



The specimen from which my description was taken measured 

 in length eight inches and a half, the shape stout, and a larger 

 individual of the length of a foot to the fork of the tail, was 

 six inches and a half in girth in front of the dorsal fin. The 

 head is stout and wide over the top, forehead blunt, jaws 

 nearly equal, or with the lower slightly projecting. The gape 

 wide and mouth capacious; intermaxillary bone with teeth laid 

 in an arched order, those in the mystache thickly placed but 

 slight, also round the palate, but none in the vomer; veil in 

 front of the mouth above, and a slight one below; roof of the 

 palate arched over; fine teeth in the tongue; nostrils nearer the 

 snout than to the eye, the anterior open and surrounded with 

 a border of membrane, close behind it the fine pointed orifice 

 of another. Eye rather large. The back rises gradually to 

 the dorsal fin; scales very small; lateral line slightly raised, 

 straight, the pores small and very numerous. All the fins have 

 the membrane dense. The thickness of the body is carried 

 back to the adipose fin, and more especially in the large example. 

 Dorsal fin high, the rays fourteen, the fourth longest and two 

 last united. The pectoral reaches three fourths of the distance 

 to the ventrals, broad, with thirteen rays; anal fin eleven; 

 ventral ten or eleven. Colour of the upper parts black, sides 

 dark, thickly covered with white spots, as were other examples; 

 belly yellow, but in some a tinge of red, this colour seeming 

 to have vanished from the operation of spirit in which they 

 had been preserved. Upper ray of the pectoral fin whitish, and 

 in a less degree the border; front border of the anal white; 

 ventrals with a tinge of orange; all besides dark. Air-bladder 

 large: milt of small size. 



