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BIFASCIATED SPARUS. 



Sparus Bifasciatus. S. fuscus, fasciis duabus albis tra?isversis, 



cauda vtrinque alba. 

 Brown Sparus, with two white transverse bands, and the tail 



white on each side. 

 Anthias bifasciatus. Block. 



A SMALL species, with the habit of a Chastodon, 

 and allied to the Polymna : scales small : the 

 second band runs through the hind-part of the 

 dorsal fin. Native of the Indian seas, and found 

 abonit the coasts of Amboina. 



ARGUS SPARUS. 



Sparus Argus. S. argenteo-ccerulescens, maculis numerosis, ocel- 



larilntSyfuscis. 



Silvery-blueish Anthias, with numerous ocellated brown spots. 

 Anthias Argus. Block, t. 317. 



A MOST elegant species : length about a foot : 

 colour silvery white, tinged with fine blue on the 

 upper parts, and marked all over with pretty numer- 

 ous annular spots of brown. Native country un- 

 certain : figured by Bloch from a specimen in the 

 Linkian collection at Leipzic. 



