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channelled above and between the eyes, and armed 

 with spiny processes; gill covers and properculum 

 strongly toothed at the margins. Eyes, very large, 

 protruding from their sockets. Mouth, wide, gaping ; 

 lips, fleshy ; teeth, crowded, paved small, sharp, and 

 curved in both jaws. Soft rays of dorsal fin longest. 

 Liver, unequally three-lobed ; gall-bladder, of an oval 

 form, and the pylorus provided with numerous ccecal 

 appendages. Air-bladder, large. Tile-red, with 

 shades of orange, white and yellowish-green ; marked 

 on the sides with a few flesh-coloured spots. Belly, 

 white, tinged with orange. Palate and peritonaeum, 

 greyish white. Length, twelve to fifteen inches. 

 Called Jacoh Evertsen, after a Dutch captain, remark- 

 able for a red face, and large projecting eyes. 



This fish, though common to Table Bay almost at 

 all seasons, is highly prized for its flesh by most 

 colonists. 



4. Sebastes Mactlatus. Cuv. and Yal. {San- 

 cord.) Similar to the former, but shorter, — of a more 

 slender form, and with eyes, neither projecting, nor 

 mouth much gaping. Liver, rather large, three- 

 lobed ; gall bladder, narrow, and club-shaped ; pylo- 

 rus, without regular coecal appendices, but surrounded 

 by a glandular greasy mass. Natatory bladder want- 

 ing ; palate and peritonoeum, black. Snout, obtuse ; 

 teeth, criniform, arranged in a band around the inner 



