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gill-covers adorned with branched lines — perhaps mucous ducts. 

 The usual hooked serrations along the line of the belly. Dorsal 

 fin over the ventrals, with twenty rays; the first two short; 

 pectorals eighteen; anal fin narrow, twenty-one rays, the last 

 two from one root; ventrals nine rays. Colour of the back blue, 

 upper portion of the head brown; light golden tints on the 

 gill-covers and about the upper parts round the eye, tints of 

 blue and pink reflect on the sides, silvery below; a large 

 black spot close behind the upper border of the gill-covers. 

 Pharyngeal bones very slightly rough. 



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