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GALAXIAS VEKSICOLOK. 



Body oval ; liead attenuated, and rather pointed. Height four 

 and two-third times in the total length ; head five and eight- 

 tenths in the same ; eye four and one-third times in the length 

 of the head. The lower jaw is a little longer than the other ; 

 cleft of the mouth rather small ; the maxillary just attaining the 

 vertical from the anterior margin of the eye. The fins are rather 

 large ; the dorsal and anal begin opposite one another ; the first 

 has nine rays, and the second twelve ; the caudal is rather emar- 

 ginated, with sixteen long rays ; the pectoral is equal in length 

 o the distance from the posterior margin of the eye to the end 

 of the operculum ; it is formed of thirteen rays ; the ventrals are 

 placed at an equal distance from the pectorals and the anal. The 

 teeth are small on the upper jaw, but much larger, straight, 

 pointed and rather distant one from the other on the lower ; those 

 of the tongue are large, straight, and pointed. 



The body is of a fine green ; the lower part of the head is grey, 

 and the one of the body of an orange yellow ; the head and 

 body are covered with very minute blue points. The fins are 

 grey, with the rays white; the ventrals are also white; the 

 fluxes form on the middle of the body traces of transverse obscure 

 arched lines ; eye of the colour of gold. 



Seen only one specimen, in a marsh near St. Kilda. Length, 

 5^ inches. 



GALAXIAS ATTENUATES. 



G-alaxias attenuatus, Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, p. 121 



pi. 22, fig. 5. 

 ■ ■ Guv. $f Vol., vol. xviii., p. 348. 



Height of the body seven and six-eighth times in the total 

 length ; length of head, six and a-half times in same ; eye five 

 times in the length of the head. Body very elongate; rather 

 cylindrical ; jaws equal in length ; cleft of the mouth rather 

 small, not attaining the vertical from the front of the eye. The 

 lateral line is well marked and straight. From the beginning of 

 the dorsal to the vertical of the centre of the eye, there is three 

 times the distance to the beginning of the caudal ; the dorsal has 



