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simiosities — one opposite to the beginning of the first dorsal, 
and the other to its end. The anal, also, has only eight soft 
rays. The body is very silvery, with the bade of a light green, 
showing on the living spedmen seven or eight longitudinal 
lines, of a rather darker tinge ; the sides and belly have a rosy 
hue ; the sides of the head are rather purple ; the fins are of a 
purplish green ; the eye yellow. Length, 16 inches. 
APOaON. 
This genus extends its halitat over all the warm and temperate 
seas of the globe. In America alone its sorts appear to be very 
scarce, and I was the first to describe one from Brazils ; since 
then Dr. G-unther has made known another from the Pacific 
coast of South America. I have only observed one sort at Mel- 
bourne, and it appears to me not to have been previously 
described. It is certainly very distinct from Dr. Gunther’s 
Apogon Victoria}, which I have not yet seen. 
APOGON GUNTHEEI. 
D. 7.— 1/9. A. 1/7. P. 15. C. 21. 
Upper profile very convex ; body very thick ; height contained 
a little over two and a-half times in total length ; head about 
two and two-thirds in the same ; eye very large, its diameter 
being one-third of the length of the head. PrsDoperculum 
with its first ridge entire, and the second rather strongly 
denticulated ; operculum with two spines ; scales large, ciliated 
on their external margin, numbering from 26 to 27 on the 
lateral line, and 11 or 12 on the transverse one. The spines 
of the first dorsal are as follow : — The first very short, the second 
more than twice its length, the third very large and very thick, 
arched, and at least double of the second — the following go on 
decreasing; the second dorsal has a strong, straight spine, followed 
by the soft rays, which are one-third longer ; caudal rounded ; 
anal with two spines — the first short and arched, the second 
more than twice its length, and straight ; the solt rays like those 
of the dorsal; the spine of the ventrals strong; the pectorals 
rather large and rounded. The general colour is of a brownish 
pink, without spots or bands ; the sides of the head have a golden 
tinge ; the scales are covered with very minute black dots, except 
