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none on those taken from the river. These spots are, moreover, 
very irregular, generally being more numerous on one side of the 
fish than on the other. 
All the specimens I have seen were beautifully reticulated on 
the back and top of the head,-with brown, yellow and olive. In 
all other respects, the description of this fish by Dr. Storer, does 
not materially differ from the specimens I have examined. 
I conclude by citing here Dr. Storer’s description of the species. 
“The specimen, which was a female, was twenty-seven inches 
in length; the length of the head was five and a half inches. 
The body is very broad in front of the dorsal fin; it becomes 
much depressed on the sides back of the first dorsal, and tapers 
to the caudal fin. Its general color is yellowish; the back, be- 
‘tween the back of the head and the dorsal fin, exhibits a reddish 
tint; the top of the head and the opercula are fuliginous, the lat- 
ter exhibiting golden reflections in their centre. ‘The bo y be- 
neath is white. The whole body is perfectly smooth, covered 
by innumerable cup-shaped depressions, like that of the Zoar 
chus anguillaris, and like that species it is lubricated by a viscid © 
secretion. . ages ie 
“The depth of the body at the base of the pectorals is three 
and a half inches; its greatest depth is four and a half ‘inches ; 
its depth at the vent is three and a half inches. The greatest 
breadth of the head across the opercula is five inches. Its breadth 
across the eyes is three and a quarter inches. The snout is blunt. — 
The top of the head is flat. ‘The distance between the eyes 3S 
less than two inches. The eyesare circular, one half inch in di- 
ameter; the nostrils are double—the posterior, half an inch in 
front of the eyes; the anterior, which is tubular, and furnished 
with a cirrhus, two lines in length, is less than half an inch in| 
front of this. The opercula are nearly two inches in length. a, 
“'The vertical gape of the mouth, is two inches in extent; the. 
jaws are equal; the jaws, palatine bones and pharynx are armed 
with numerous fine teeth, placed like those of a card. ‘The 
tongue large, smooth and white. Suspended from the chin is 4 
cirrhus one and a half inches in length. 
«“!Phe lateral line commences above the operculum, and eradu- 
ally curving downwards, does not reach the middle o the body, 
until beyond the middle of the dorsal fin. The dorsal, pectoral, 
atial and caudal fins are colored as well as the sides of the fish, 
With’ bldish blotches, and are margined with black. ‘The ventral 
-. fins are white beneath, and fuliginous above. 
- By S% 
~~ “The first dorsal fin is situated eleven inches back of the 
snout; ,it is two inches long, one inch high, the posterior portion 
being barely higher than the anterior. ‘The second dorsal fi 
‘commences half an inch back of the preceding; it is less than 
an inch high at the eemmencement, and is half an inch high at 
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