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the three anterior spines terminating in long slender filaments, 

 which extend backward to well beyond the base of the 

 caudal {^) or to the x:)eduncle ( 9 ) ; last spine without 

 membrane, much shorter than the rays ; interdorsal space 

 as long as the spinous dorsal : soft dorsal high, the rays 

 but little graduated to the last, which reaches to or slightly 

 beyond the base of the caudal ; base of soft dorsal equal 

 to its distance from the anterior border of the eye. Anal 

 originating below the membrane of the third dorsal ray, 

 similar to and nearly as high as the second dorsal, its base 

 about half its distance from the tip of the mandible, its last 

 Tay reaching as far back as that of the soft dorsal. Caudal 

 fin with rounded tip ; caudal peduncle distally compressed, 

 its least depth equaling the eye. Pectoral fin inserted 

 below the end of the spinous dorsal, the middle rays the 

 longest, extending to below the fourth dorsal ray. Free 

 ventral ray as long as the head without the snout, much 

 longer than the succeeding ray ; continuous rays graduated, 

 the last very large, reaching beyond the pectoral, its mem- 

 brane attached superiorly to the base of the eighth pectoral 

 ray. 



Olive- or violet-brown above, with six large blackish 

 blotches across the back, the interspaces with darker 

 freckles and sometimes with blue black-edged ocelli of 

 variable size ; sides with a similar number of somewhat 

 stellate blotches, more or less corresponding to the spaces 

 between the dorsal blotches, the interspaces chestnut or 

 violet, with or without golden or pearly spots and reticu- 

 lated lines ; lower surface white, faintly tinged with bluish ; 

 under surface of head pale brown. Iris silvery, with an 

 inner golden rim. Spinous dorsal and its filaments blackish, 

 the membrane of the second ray with numerous small 

 pearly spots on its outer half, that of the third with a wide 

 lighter marginal band ; second dorsal lilac, the ground 

 color well nigh obliterated by crowded oblique purplish 

 bars : base of anal rufous brown, deepening to purple at 

 the margin : caudal fin golden, the rays brown, speckled 

 with pale blue ; posterior margin with wavy blue transverse 

 streaks, the rest of the fin except the two lower rays which 

 are smoky brown, with elongate blue lines, which are oblique 

 above and horizontal below ; pectorals hyaline, the basal 

 half of the upper and middle rays with alternate lilac and 



