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YELLOW LORICARIA. 



Loricaria Flava. L. Jlava fusco maculata, cauda striis trans- 



versisfmcis, dorso dipterygio* 

 Yellow Loricaria, spotted with brown, with two dorsal fins, 



and tail marked by transverse bands. 



Loricaria Plecostomus. L. pinnis dorsi duabus. Block, t. 374. 

 Accipenser Indicus. Lin. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 55. t. 28. /. 4. 

 Loricaria Plecostomus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 508. 



AN elegant species : length about ten inches : 

 habit much less slender than in the two preceding : 

 head large, and roughened by minute points : 

 mouth placed beneath : body mailed by four rows of 

 scales or plates on each side, each scale terminated 

 by a short spine : dorsal iin large : second dorsal 

 or spurious fin very small, and blackish : tail 

 lunated, with pointed lobes, the lower somewhat 

 longer than the upper : colour of the whole animal 

 orange-yellow, thickly spotted, except on the head, 

 by small round, deep-brown spots : tail barred by 

 several stripes of the same colour. Native of the 

 Indian seas. 



