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pink, with a rather large rounded black spot on the external 

 edge ; it has a white ring round it ; the second dorsal is white, 

 with its edge rather yellow ; its spines are marbled with yellow 

 and brown ; the caudal is rounded, of a grey colour, with five or 

 six transverse lines of red spots ; the anal has its first half 

 white, and its external one of a bright yellow ; the ventrals also 

 yellow, with the rays orange ; the pectorals are grey, with the 

 rays pink and spotted with brown, their lower surface is black ; 

 the free rays are also spotted ; eye yellow, spotted with brown, 

 with an inner circle of a fine orange colour. 



This sort seems to be very scarce, as I have only seen one spe- 

 cimen. It was in the month of July. 



This fish was found many years ago, by the celebrated 

 naturalist Peron, and was described by Cuvier and Valenciennes 

 in their great work, but its locality was not known. 



TBACHINIDJE. 



" Body elongate, low, naked, or covered with 

 scales. Teetli in villiform bands, with pointed and 

 conical canines in some of the genera ; no molars 

 or trenchant teeth. The infraorbital ring does not 

 articulate with the praeoperculum. One or two 

 dorsal fins, the spinous portion being always much 

 less developed and shorter than the soft ; the anal 

 similarly developed as the soft dorsal ; ventrals with 

 one spine and five rays. Gill-opening more or less 

 wide; five, six, or seven branchiostegals ; pseudo- 

 branchiae. No prominent papilla near the anus. 

 Air-bladder generally absent ; pyloric appendages 

 moderate in number or wanting. 



'■ Carnivorous fishes, living at the bottom of the 

 shores of nearly all the seas." 



