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pink, with a rather large rounded black spot on the external 
edge ; it has a white ring round it ; the second dorsal is white, 
with its edge rather yellow ; its spines are marbled with yellow 
and brown ; the caudal is rounded, of a grey colour, with five or 
six transverse lines of red spots ; the anal has its first half 
white, and its external one of a bright yellow ; the ventrals also 
yellow, with the rays orange ; the pectorals are grey, with the 
rays pink and spotted with brown, their lower surface is black ; 
the free rays are also spotted ; eye yellow, spotted with brown, 
with an inner circle of a fine orange colour. 
This sort seems to be very scarce, as I have only seen one spe- 
cimen. It was in the month of J uly. 
This fish was found many years ago, by the celebrated 
naturalist Peron, and was described by Cuvier and Valenciennes 
in their great work, but its locality was not known. 
TEACHINID^. 
“ Body elongate, low, naked, or covered with 
scales. Teeth in villiform hands, with pointed and 
conical canines in some of the genera ; no molars 
or trenchant teeth. The infraorhital ring does not 
articulate with the prseoperculum. One or two 
dorsal fins, the spinous portion being always much 
less developed and shorter than the soft ; the anal 
s imila rly developed as the soft dorsal ; ventrals with 
one spine and five rays. Gill-opening more or less 
wide; five, six, or seven branchiostegals ; pseudo- 
branchiae. No prominent papilla near the anus. 
Air-bladder generally absent; pyloric appendages 
moderate in number or wanting. 
'• Carnivorous fishes, living at the bottom of the 
shores of nearly all the seas.” 
