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the same ; the orbit three times and three-fourths in the length 
of the head j the snout is a little longer than the diameter of 
the orbit ; the lower jaw is longer than the upper one ; the 
maxillaries are far from extending to the vertical of the 
anterior margin of the eye. The lateral line curbs behind 
the pectorals, and its arched portion is contained once and 
two-thirds in the straight one ; the carinated plates of which 
it is formed on this part go increasing in height to the base of 
the tail, and then grow smaller to the end; the body is 
covered with minute scales, which extend on the breast. The 
first dorsal is received in a sheath of the back, it is formed of 
eight rays ; the second dorsal is composed of a spine and 
twenty-three rays ; the caudal of eighteen long rays and eight 
or nine shorter ones on each side ; the anal has two front 
detached short spines, forming a short fin; the anal 
proper is composed of one spine and twenty rays; the 
pectoral is nearly as long as the head, arched, and formed of 
sixteen rays. 
The straight portion of the lateral line is formed of about 
forty-six shields; the greatest height of the body is just 
behind the two detached spines of the anal ; on each side of 
the tail, near the base of the caudal, there is a short oblique 
ridge. 
The colour is (in spirits) entirely gilt, with the upper parts 
of a light blue ; no spot on the operculum ; fins of a bright 
yellow. I have several specimens, the largest is not quite four 
and a half inches long. 
Dr. Gunther has in several places changed names of 
species dedicated to the celebrated French Ichthyologist 
in Valensiennesii, but this is not only useless but disfigures 
entirely the name, as the terminal s is not pronounced in 
French. 
Nota.— This sort comes very near to Caranx Lepturm of 
Agassix, in Spix. Pise. Bras., p. 106, pi. lvi., b, fig. 2, and 
only seems to differ from it by the maxillaries, which are 
much shorter in my new sort, and the ventrals, which are 
represented in the plate as inserted more forward. 
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