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tOUTl BODIAN. 



Bodianus Louti. B. oblongo-lanceolatus mimatus, guttis molaceis, 



pinnis marginejlavis. 

 Oblong-lanceolate Bodian, with smallish violaceous spots, and 



fins edged with yellow. 

 Perca Louti. Lin. Gmel. For.sk. Arab. 



LENGTH between two and three feet : eyes red : 

 teeth setaceous and flexile, with some stronger 

 conical ones intermixed : tail linear, and bifalcate. 

 Native of the Arabian seas : observed by ForskaK 



PALPEBRAL BODIAN. 



Bodianus Palpebratus. B. spadiceus, oculis ochraceis valvula 



liberajlavescente munitis. 

 Subfen^uginous Bodian, with ochre-coloured eyes, guarded by a 



moveable yellow valve. 

 Sparus palpebratus. Lin. GmcL Pall. nord. bcytr. 2. 



SHAPE resembling that of a Perch, but the head 

 more obtuse : length a few inches : eyes guarded 

 externally by an oval moveable yellow valve or 

 cover, attached by the anterior extremity: native 

 of the seas about Amboyna. 



