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body, and caudal fin is wax-yellow or siskin-green, becoming 

 brighter towards the under surface. Four flaxflower-blue 

 streaks descend from behind forward, obliquely over the nape, 

 gill-covers, and cheek : there are some blue tints about the jaws, 

 and two rows of blotches of the same colour run along the sides 

 to the tail. The tip of the caudal is blackish. The base and 

 upper edge of the dorsal have the greenish tint of the body ; the 

 middle part is alternately bluish and rose-coloured, with a row of 

 irregular darker red spots. The anal is rose-coloured, with a 

 purple margin, and the pectorals and ventrals are entirely rose- 

 coloured. 



DIMENSIONS. 



In. Lin. 



Length from tip of upper lip, when retracted, to ex- 

 tremity of caudal-fin . &*';*' ' y ' a ' : ; .82 

 Do. do. to base of caudal-fin . .70 

 Do. do. to beginning of anal . . 2 3-g- 

 Do. do. to beginning of dorsal . * i'* ; 'l 11-J- 

 Do. do. to pectorals ;*^. ';'.'' ^ . 1 9^ 

 Do. do. to ventrals. . . - 1 5 

 Do. do. to edge of gill-flap .. . 1 9 

 Do. do. to anterior angle of eye . 7J 

 Diameter of the eye, lengthwise ' u ' 4 -' : . - 1 ''.. . 4 

 Greatest height of the dorsal (llth to 15th ray) . . 010^ 

 Height of first dorsal ray t !..'' /- . . ^ -.-.' '"'.\ . 7 

 Do. of last do. .v' v .'./: .'.', ^ , ' ' ; 3J 

 Do. of middle anal rays .,., ' ,'i: j '..:' .;.'];.. 7 

 Length of dorsal fin . vjj -.' . . '^.- . 4 6i 

 Do. of anal fin . . . . . . .45 



Do. of space between dorsal or anal and caudal . 2 



Do. of ventrals '' . ' ' 1!l ";'- :; '- |>~ ^-wV . ^ . Q 11 



Do. of pectorals . * ;* " i .^\ t v" ; : . . l 2 



Do. of caudal . . -.' "' .*"' . : '.- . 1 2 



Height of body at anus . *_- -.' . "J ' .09 



Thickness of do. 08 



Width at gill-covers v . <r-y . s 4 . 9J 



Do. of space between the orbits . .. . .02 



The dimensions of Forster's specimen are nearly the same with 

 the above. 



Thrown up by a storm in Queen Charlotte's Sound, and 

 termed by the natives " Kogohooee." At Wangaroa 



