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another stronger and rather longer above the orbit, it is 
compressed and simple, having only a small angle on its ante- 
rior edge ; teeth very numerous and sharp on the jaws ; others 
on the vomer more blunt ; on the lower jaw they are also 
very numerous, the outer ones forming a line of rather large 
and more conical ones j scales more or less visible, particularly 
so on the middle of the body ; they are almost round, and fall 
very easily ; the lateral line begins above the operculum, and 
follows the back, but opposite the sixth spine of the second 
dorsal it bends downwards, and follows the middle of the body 
to the tail; it is formed of a succession of little ridges 
apart one from the other; the muscular fluxes are very 
visible. 
The first dorsal is placed over the centre of the orbit ; it is 
short, formed of three rays, the first as long as the height of 
the body ; the second rather shorter, and the third only one- 
half of the first ; the space between the two dorsals is equal 
to one and a-half that from the anterior base of the first ray, to 
the posterior one of the third (first dorsal) ; the second dorsal 
begins over the end of the operculum, and goes increasing in 
height to its end ; it is high and formed of twenty eight spines, 
and six rays which can only with difficulty be distinguished 
from them. The last membrane is attached to the tail at a 
distance from the base of the caudal, equal to one and a-half 
times the diameter of the eye ; the caudal is long, oblong, of nine 
rays longer than the membranes which unite them; the 
anal begins opposite to the twelfth spine of the second 
dorsal ; it is of the same form as that fin, and is composed of 
two spines and twenty-three rays ; it is attached to the tail in 
front of the insertion of the dorsal ; its rays are longer than 
their membranes ; the ventrals are placed in front of °the pec- 
torals, they are formed of two short and of two long filaments ; 
pectorals rather large, of eleven rays longer than the membranes' 
After having been in liquor, this fish appears to have been of 
a uniform carmine, with the head and fins orange. 
The male organ is most remarkable, having the form of a 
large ruguous globe. 
