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edge of both jaws. Upper part of body, tile-red, 

 mingled with orange, and shaded with brown. Scales, 

 with greenish -brown edges. Belly, white, clouded 

 with orange, and tinged with yellow. Length, eight 

 to twelve inches. Dorsal fin, dim tile-red, sprinkled 

 with yellowish green irregular marks, and with 

 darker chestnut brown spots at the base of the 

 membranous portion of its first spiny rays. Hue of 

 pectoral, anal, ventral, and caudal fins, orange, with 

 carmine-red : the eight lower rays of the pectoral 

 fins detached at top from their connecting membrane. 

 Iris, yellow. 



A very delicious fish, but not very common. 

 Caught chiefly in winter. Dr. A. Smith, in his 

 illustrated work on South African Zoology, has con 

 founded this species with the former. Though in 

 their general outlines closely related, both fishes are, 

 however, easily discerned, not only byoutward appear 

 ance, but yet more by their anatomical differences ; 

 the one having a swim-bladder, and the other not; 

 and from the colour of the palate and peritonaeum, 

 which are white in the first species, but black in the 

 second. 



5. SCL^ENIN^ HOLOLEPIDOTA. Cuv. and Val ~(Ea- 

 leljauw.) Body, elongated, stout. Head, large, 

 rounded, bony ; mouth, moderately large ; both man- 



