212 



THICK-LIPPED CHALCEUS. 



Chalceus lahrosus. 



PLATE XIIL Fig. L 

 L, Geral. Sardino. Sckomh. Dratnnrjs^ No, 55. 



This small and delicately marked species seems 

 typical in form, and has the same elongation of the 

 anal fin which we saw in the last, but seems marked 

 by the maxillary bones being more than usually 

 elongated, and by their apparently forming the whole 

 margin of lips. " It was taken in the river Paduiri 

 in Marcli. The scales are rather large, elliptical, 

 smooth, and deciduous ; the lateral line is curved, 

 and runs nearest the belly. The tongue is round ; 

 teeth, a row on each jaw, three rows on the roof of 

 the mouth. The intestines form flexures and have 

 appendices. The air-bag is double, — one half long 

 and pointed, the other oval. It is short-lived after 

 being taken from the water." Our drawing is in 

 length five inches and a quarter to the centre of the 

 fork. The form is of a rounder oval outline than 

 among the Coregoni, and the lateral line is placed 

 lower. The colour of the body is of a silvery bluish 

 grey, darker on the back ; that of the fins a bluish 



