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snout, and more especially by the absence of the ocellatcd 

 spots behind the eyes, as well as by the much smaller size of 

 the tendrils or cirri near the nostrils. Some marks arc rep- 

 resented in Gouan's figure of this fish, but thcv ;i[)pear only 

 as faint stripes, and I have seen marks Avhich appeared like 

 them in only one individual, froni which our description of 

 the colours of this fish were taken. In another example the 

 general colour ajiproached to orange red, varied oidy in 

 becoming paler on the lower surface; and in a third the 

 anterior parts Avere dark brown, lighter, and approaching to 

 yellow on the hindAvard part of the body, with tAvo crimson 

 lines running from behind the eyes doAvuAvard to the sucking- 

 organ. But the most beautiful of these examples Avas all over 

 of a dusky red; the iris of the eyes with red radiations from 

 the pupil. Tavo broad vermilion stripes on the cheeks, one 

 from the eye obliquely backAvard, and another from the side 

 of the head to the side of the sucker; pale vermilion bands 

 across the back in front of the dorsal fin, which fin is dark, 

 Avith six round bright vermilion spots along its root. Anal 

 fin lively vermilion Avith a dusky border. The tail is round, 

 and in the first-mentioned example the central rays Avere much 

 lengthened. 



