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SILVERY BODIAN. 



Bodianus Argenteus. B. argenteus, dorso subcoerulescente. 

 Silvery Bodiau, with blueish back. 

 Bodianus argenteus. Block, 



Length about six inches : shape like that of a 

 Herring : scales middle sized : fins slightly tinged 

 with yellow : tail pretty deeply forked : native of 

 the Mediterranean. 



With even, or rounded tail. 



APUA BODIAN. 



Bodianus Apua. jB. ruber, dorso maculis, corpore punctis nigris, 



pinnis nigro marginatis. 

 Red Bodian, with the back spotted, the body specked, and the 



fins iedged with black. 

 Bodianus Apua. Block. 



Length twelve or fourteen inches : habit that of 

 a Carp : colour blood-red, with a silvery cast to- 

 wards the abdomen : scales middle-sized : spiny 

 rays of the dorsal fin extremely strong : eyes red : 

 tail nearly even, or but very slightly rounded : na- 

 tive of the Brasiiian seas. 



