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coloured a beautiful orange; further, the throat is almost quite black 

 and the colour of the fins described above is much stronger than 

 in the first variety. Described in more detail the dorsum, the head 

 (top and sides) and the flank (to some distance under the lateral 

 line in the posterior third of the body and anteriorly to the under 

 margin of P) are grayish-brown to olive-green; above V the colour 

 of the belly forms a longitudinal belt 2 cm broad from a little in 

 front of V to just above the hindmost point of the V rays and 

 connects posteriorly by 5 stripes with the colour of the belly. The 

 latter is strongly orange-yellow, lighter under the neck and some- 

 what in front of V (lower side of the fish); posteriorly the colour 

 extends ca. 30 mm out on С near the lower margin of this fin; 

 anteriorly the colour ends just under the preoperculum; ca. 10 mm 

 in front of this there is an isolated yellow spot, and from here to 

 the point of the lower jaw the blackish-brown colour is broken up 

 into dots and shades on the white ground. The point of the lower 

 jaw is black; posteriorly (along the walls of the mouth) it becomes 

 brownish-yellow and its innermost half is bluish above, white below; 

 these 3 colours are shaded with black. The anterior margin of the 

 upper jaw is brownish-yellow, posteriorly black, as also the symphj'sis. 

 The skin between the jaws and gill-cover white with a black shade 

 and light shields are seen on the brownish gill-cover. The pupil 

 bluish-black, iris silvery, covered with brownish-black pigment. 

 Upper side and middle of P black, outer margin and under side 

 whitish-blue with black shaded stripes, which follow the rays or 

 the interspaces between these; the inner margin flesh-red and the 

 tip reddish yellow-brown; from the root out 20mm on the fin there 

 is a yellowish-brown spot, which breaks up in front into a couple 

 of smaller spots. V is of similar colour, but less black and more 

 red flesh-coloured (the last in the innermost 2/3rds of the fins); A 

 almost just as black as P, but only has the outer margin bluish- 

 white (otherwise red flesh-coloured); the outer margin of С is bluish- 

 w^hite, otherwise like the colour of the dorsum. D^ black with light 

 anterior margin and whitish-blue colour as on P, posteriorly reddish- 

 yellow; D- reddish-black. The sides of the fish with whitish-yellow 

 (uppermost) to orange-red (innermost) dots or spots; on the anterior 

 half of the body they begin 30 cm above the base of P and are 

 present in 3 — 4 rows under the lateral line; in the posterior half they 

 are considerably smaller and are present above the lateral line in 2 rows. 

 It may be mentioned, that the colours of the first variety are 

 but little constant, the dark colour of the dorsum disappearing 

 when the dead fish lies in water, changing from metallic to grayish- 

 white; the colour of the belly also becomes paler, but the spots 



