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the other fins were variegated with purple spots, and edged with 
crimson ; the eye was blue, with an inner and an external crimson 
circle. 
On the dried specimens, appear sorts of longitudinal ridges, 
such as those that Dr. Eichardson has represented in his plate 
of L. Laticlavius . 
LABmCHTHrS VESTITA. 
The height of the body is contained three and two-third times 
in the total length ; the head is three and three-fourth times in 
the same ; the orbit is seven times in the latter. The anterior 
part of the head is rather more rounded than in the two first 
sorts. There is only one long canine tooth on each side, but the 
dentition seems to vary considerably with age, as in a specimen 
12 inches long, there is only one tooth at the corner of the 
mouth, but there are two, and in some places three, rows of teeth 
on the upper jaw ; on a specimen 17 inches long, there are two 
teeth at the corner of the mouth, and one line in all the anterior 
portion of the lower jaw. It is only on the sides that a line of 
small extra teeth are visible. On the cheeks, there are three or 
four irregular lines of rounded scales. The lateral line is of the 
same form as that of the preceding species ; it runs over twenty- 
six scales, and is formed of twenty-three long tubes, expanding 
posteriorly in very numerous, broad, and intricate arbuscles ; the 
transverse line is formed of fourteen scales. The dorsal is com- 
posed of nine spines and eleven rays ; it is nearly equal in all its 
length, the soft part being very little higher than the other. The 
dorsal scales do not extend over its base ; caudal rounded, of 
thirteen long rays, with another almost as long, aud several short 
ones on each side. Anal with three spines and ten rays ; the 
first spine is about one-third shorter than the second, and this 
bears about the same proportion to the third ; the ventrals have 
one long and slender spine and five rays, the two first rather pro- 
longed ; pectorals of thirteen rays. 
The colour is of a reddish lilac, with two broad, transversal 
bands of a dark brown on the body — one situated just behind the 
extremity of the pectoral, and the other towards the middle of 
the soft dorsal. The middle of the head, from the jaws to the 
operculum, presents a beautiful blue tinge, which extends equally 
