Description of a new species of Dory. 145 
From the pretty appearance of your specimen, after having 
been rolled to land, by thé waves, and sitbsequently dried, it 
must have been very showy and splendid, when alive. 
The length is five inches and one half, The depth more 
than three inches and three quarters. The thickness, as in 
most of the dories, very inconsiderable. | Colour of she back, 
bluish; or violet; of the belly, shining white; of the princi- 
pal fins, yellowish, Ke variegations of black. Movith of 
moderate size; an med, in both jaws, with exceedingly 
fine and sharp teeth. Eee] jaw projects somewhat beyond 
the upper. Tail deeply swallow-forked. Skin sealeless; or 
if there had been any, they had fallen off. Eyes large, with 
projecting brows. Gill-cover tripartite ; the posterior “imar- 
gin of the foremost section, faintly j 
But the 
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“most sir it part of its structure belongs to the 
dorsal and anal fins. — 
From a place a Tittle Behe the Sims fe ithe as its 
back, arises a fin, with seven rays. The hindermost of these 
is about half an inch long, and spimous. ‘The second, rather 
more than two inches long, and bristly. The third, six 
inches long, and hairy. The fourth, fifth and sixth, of al- 
than twelve inches; being bony about half way, and then 
gradually changing to hair, or a substance resembling the fila~ 
of whale-bon 
“Ake, from a ale. a short distance behind the pelvis, 
arise five te rays. ‘The hindermost of these, exceeds fo 
length; of the second, six inches; of the thir 
three ; of the fourth, nine; of the fifth ray, counting tor 
the head, something more than six vite sesh et : the 
he extremity ; and the fifth, setaceo 
at the ex 
’ The second dorsal fin is composed of eleven “bine Wainer 
rays, connect ed by membranes. 
The continuation of the anal fin, possesses, likewise, eleven 
two-cleft bristly rays, similarly united. 
Ventrals very distinct in their origin, and widening in their 
progress. They are dark-coloured. 
Pectoral fins have each seventeen rays, an inch, or rather 
more, in length, and acuminat a or somewhat faleiform. 
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