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PUNCTATED HOLOCENTRUS. 



Holocentrus Punctatus. II. flams, guttis nigris punctisque 

 rubris aspersus. 



Yellow Holocentrus, sprinkled over with black spots and red 

 points. 



Holocentrus punctatus. Block. 



Size and habit of the Atlantic Spa?*us (Perca 

 metadata, Block.) : colour pale yellow, marked on all 

 parts with numerous small round black spots, with 

 smaller red ones interspersed : fins and tail strongly 

 tinged with red. Native of the Brasilian seas. 



SPUR-GILLED HOLOCENTRUS. 



Holocentrus Calcarifer. H. subargenteus dorso subfusco, squatms 



magnis, opercidis calcaratis. 

 Subargenteous Holocentrus, with brownish back, large scales, 



and spurred gill-covers. 

 Holocentrus calcarifer. Block. 



Length about a foot : habit that of a Carp, but 

 rather more lengthened in proportion : body marked 

 by dusky lines along each row of scales : anterior 

 gill-covers furnished with four strong sharp spines, 

 so placed as to bear some resemblance to the rowel 

 of a spur : posterior gill-covers armed with a single 

 spine : fins and tail marked across the rays by 

 brown spotted streaks. Native of Japan. 



