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head. The general form is almost a regular oval ; the top of the 
headland the snout have no scales, but all the other parts of the 
head are covered vrith them ; on the upper jaw, there is an 
external row of rather long, slender, conical and blunt teeth, and 
behind them several irregular rows of smaller,- arched and more 
acute ones ; at the lower j aw, there is only the external row, and 
the teeth are placed at some distance one from the other. The 
lateral line is regular, extends to the base ol the caudal, and 
covers about one hundred and twenty scales ; the dorsal fin is 
formed of sixteen spines, the longest of all being the fourth and the 
fifth ; the three first going on increasing as they are placed back- 
wards, the last rays of the fin as short as the first. The second 
part of the dorsal is formed of one spine and forty rays ; this 
spine is much longer than the last of the spiny part, but much 
shorter than the first soft rays, which are even longer than the 
highest spines ; these rays go on decreasing to the end ; the anal 
has the same form as the soft dorsal ; it is formed of two spines 
and thirty-eight rays ; the caudal is very strongly bifurcated ; 
it has seventeen long rays and four shorter ones on each 
side; the pectorals are about one-sixth of the total length of 
the body, and are formed of eighteen rays ; the ventrals are 
rather small ; they are placed considerably behind the pectorals, 
and are formed of one rather long b ut slender spine and of five 
branched rays, the first of which has one-third more than the 
spine. 
The colours are beautiful. The head is yellow in front, and 
green behind the eyes, with the sides purple ; the mouth and the 
throat are of a fine pink ; the back is of a light purplish blue, with 
numerous narrow golden longitudinal bands, which extend to the 
root of the caudal, and of which two are broader than the others ; 
the lower parts of the body are of a whitish pink. The first 
dorsal has its membranes rosy, but they become darker in their 
upper part ; the second is of a fine red, with a black external 
margin ; the anal is similar ; the caudal is greyish in its first 
half, and black in its external portion ; the ventrals are rather 
dark, and the pectorals of a dirty yellow ; the eye of a fine orange 
yellow. 
This fish is known under the name of Bastard Trumpeter; its 
flesh is said to be delicate. It is very rarely brought to the 
