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YELLOW LORICARIA. 



Loricaria Flava, L. Jlava fusco maculata, cauda striis trans^ 



tjersis fuscis, dorso diptery^io. 

 Yellow Loricaria^ spotted with brown, with two dorsal fins^ 



and tail marked by transverse bands. 

 Loricaria Plecostomus, L. pimiis dord duabus. Block, t, 374. 

 Accipenser Indicns. Lin. Mus. Ad. fnd. p. 55. t. 28./. 4. 

 Loricaria Plecostomus. Lm. Syst. Nat. p. 508. 



An elegant species : length about ten inches : 

 habit much less slender than in the two preceding : 

 head large, and roughened by minute points : 

 mouth placed beneath : body mailed by four rows of 

 scales or plates on each side, each scale terminated 

 by a short spine : dorsal fin ia:'^ge : second dorsal 

 or spurious fin very small, and blackish : tail 

 lunated, with pointed lobes, the lower somewhat 

 longer than the upper : colour of the whole animal 

 orange-yellow, thickly spotted, except on the head, 

 by small round, deep-brown spots : tail barred by 

 several stripes of the same colour. Native of the 

 Indian seas. 



