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form to the posterior tip of the fin. The specimen had the 

 anterior part of the fin frayed a little, so that it is probable 

 that the soft rays are higher and less distinctly branched than 

 the artist has represented them to be in copying the example 

 placed before him. The ventrals are in a line with the tip of 

 the gill cover and first soft dorsal ray, and from the extreme 

 narrowness of the pelvis are close to each other. They are 

 tapering, pointed, and overlap the beginning of the anal, 

 which, though it have fewer rays than the dorsal, is similar 

 in structure. The pectoral and caudal are much rounded, 

 especially the latter. There is a greater space between the anal 

 and caudal than between the dorsal and the same fin. In 

 the caudal there are twenty rays, including two very short 

 ones above, and the same number below. 



The general colour of the specimen, which has been long in 

 spirits, is shining yellowish-brown with several round dots of 

 azure-blue scattered over the body. The cheek is crossed ob- 

 liquely by a row of three spots. The figure errs in represent- 

 ing the spots as dispersed over the cheek ; they are in fact 

 ranged in a row. Length, 2| inches. 



Habitat. — Coast of Australia. 



Haslar Hospital, 2Qlh Oct., 1845. 



