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colour extends round the orbit ; a rather broad longitudinal 
stripe extends from the operculum to the base of the caudal, 
below the lateral line it is of a beautiful yellow ; on the sides 
and on a part of the back the scales have a black margin, 
which gives an obscure colour to these parts ; the fins appear 
to have been of a beautiful scarlet colour. 
Length of my largest specimen thirteen inches ; the black 
colour of the margin of some of the body scales seems subject 
to considerable variation in extent and place. In one specimen 
there are two canines on one side of the upper jaw, and only 
one on the other. 
This beautiful fish seems to be common. 
SILLAGO CILIATA? 
Sillago Ciliata, Guv. and Vol., vol. iii., p. 415 ; Regne 
An. Illustre, Poissons, pi. 13. 
Height of the body five and two-thirds in the total length 
(to the end of the centre of the caudal) ■ head three and a- 
half times in the same ; eye five times in the head ; the space 
between the eyes nearly twice in the snout ; teeth numerous, 
viliform, extending on the palatines ; snout, up to the nostril,' 
forming one-half of the space to the end of the prseoperculum • 
the edge of this is crenulated ; the scales of the body number 
sixty-three on the longitudinal line from the operculum, and 
sixteen on the transverse one ; the lateral line running over 
the sixth ; these scales are very finely ciliated at their edge ; 
the first dorsal has nine spines, the first of which is stronger, 
but rather shorter than the following ; the second dorsal is 
formed of one spine and seventeen rays ; this fin is in great 
part covered by minute scales ; the caudal is strongly emar- 
ginated, of sixteen long rays and several shorter ones on each 
side ; the rays are scaly in the two first thirds of their length ; 
the anal is formed of two spines and sixteen rays ; it bears no 
scales ; the ventrals have a rather long and slender spine and 
five rays, the first of which is rather filamentous; the pectorals 
are rather longer than the space from the end of the snout to 
the anterior edge of the orbit ■ they are formed of seventeen 
rays. 
