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FORSKAL^S FILE-FISH. 



Balistes Assasi. B. fuscus, suhtus alhidus, vertice nigrOj sfriis 



transversis cceruleis, corpore Derrucoso, 

 Brown File-Fish, whitish beneath, with the top of the head 



black, marked by transverse blue lines, and warted body. 

 Balistes Assasi. B. corpore verrucis fuscis muricato, cauda 



triplici nigrarum ordine. Lin. Gmel. ForsJc. Arab. p. ys. 



Length about a span : colour brown above, 

 whitish beneath : top of the head marked by four 

 transverse blue, and three alternate black stripes : 

 lips yellow : from the mouth to the base of the 

 pectoral fins on each side a ferruginous-brown line : 

 from this to the eye a lanceolate black streak, in 

 front of which is a yellow one, with a blueish edge: 

 tail marked with an oblong white spot. Native of 

 the Red sea : described by Forskal. 



UNDULATED FILE-FISH. 



Balistes Undulatus. B. corpore nigro lineis obliquis rubris 

 undulato. 



Black File-Fish, with the body undulated by oblique red lines, 

 Balistes undulatus. B. pinna dorsali anteriore triradiafa, caudce 

 lateribus spinis mlde robustis recumbentibus, corpore nigro 

 lineis rubris undulato. Lin. Trans, vol. 3. p. 3^. 



Native of the Indian seas : observed about the 

 shores of Sumatra by Mr. Mungo Park : from the 

 mouth to the base of the pectoral fins run three red 

 lines, and the body is obliquely undulated by twelve 

 lines of the same colour. 



