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rather unpleasing aspect he named Sucking-fish, 

 though without reason, as far as I could find. I 

 rather think he confounded it with the Remora, but 

 it was a species of Elacate ; and, as I beheve, like 

 the former, undescribed. I shall name it, from the 

 form of the caudal and pectoral fins, E. falcipiyinis* 

 Besides these, there was a pair of King-mullets 

 [Upeneus maculatus, Cuv.), called also Queen-mul- 

 let, and, from its depending beards (which are, 

 however, in some specimens entirely wanting), Goat- 

 fish. This is a beautiful fish ; its general hue is 

 pink, fading to white below, with three large livid 

 spots on each side ; the central portion of each scale 

 on the upper parts is of a pale pearly azure tint. A 

 specimen of the beautiful Angel Chaetodon {Holo- 

 canthus ciUaris), and several Snappers and Grunts, 

 made up the booty ; together with a large crustacean 



Length 8 to 10 inches. Body and fins marbled with red, brown, 

 black, and grey ; the marblings on the huge pectorals resemble the 

 pencilling of some moths ; the basal part of their under surface is 

 deep-black, marked with round white spots. The spots and marks 

 on the body are very irregular in form, sinuous, and confluent ; with 

 darker edges. The caudal is pale reddish, with three transverse 

 bands of dark brown. The irides are yellowish. 



* Elacate fakipinnis, mihi. Height of body in proportion to the 

 total length, as 1 to 9^ : length of head to total length as 1 to 5g. 

 Pectorals falcate, about as long as the head; ventrals straight, 

 pointed, about two-thirds as long as the pectorals : prae-dorsal spines 

 ten, small : dorsal and anal low ; caudal large, somewhat forked ; the 

 lobes falcate ; the upper lobe considerably exceeding the lower. 

 Length eleven inches. Irides pearly white. Body blackish above, 

 grey beneath ; a broad band of deep black runs along each side from 

 muzzle to tail, bounded both above and below by a whitish band of 

 similar breadth. Fins black : the caudal tipped obliquely with white 

 on both lobes. 



