2-34 KK VI' 1 1 KIMS. 



sonts it (liffcrcMitlv iVoiii our doscriptiou. Thnt author says it 

 is palo rt'd on tlic back, and light coloured below; but the 

 colour as marked by niy.^ell' was a darker, or brick red, and 

 onlv \'aried by being- paler on the belly. 



The extreme length -was thirteen inches, and to the end of 

 the middle rays of the tail eleven inches and a half; depth at 

 the origin of the dorsal fin three inches and a half. The gajjc 

 rather small; under jaw slightly longer than the upper. Eye 

 of moderate size. Posterior border of the gill-cover slightly 

 concave at its upper portion. The dorsal fin somewhat elevated 

 at its origin; the first ray lower than the second; this fin lowest 

 at the termination of the spinous rays. Pectoral slender, the 

 fifth ray the longest, reaching o])posite the beginning of the 

 anal fiu. \'entrals long. Lateral line slightly curved, and sud- 

 denly bent down as it approaches the tail. '!'he caudal fin 

 more than usually concave. 



Fin rays — d.irsal twelve spinous and ten soft, pectoral fifteen, 

 yentral one spinous and five soft, anal three spinous and ten 

 soft, caudal eighteen, besides obsolete rays. 



