ABROSTOMUS UMBRATUS *— Smith. 
Pisces. — Plate XII. No. 1. 
tante sub apice nasi posito ; cirris quatuor. 
Longitudo ad apicem pinnae caudalis, 8 unc. 4 lm. . , ,, 
Colour -The upper surface of the head, the centre of the back and le 
uooer parts of the sides, towards the head, a tint intermediate between 
reddish orange and brownish red (a sort of greenish purple) the remaining 
Ebs - sis s. te aa 
of St oblong, vertical blotches, below the line they are smaller, rathe 
scanty and’ somewhat circular. The sides are also variegated with several 
small clusters of minute dots of a chocolate-red colour. The belly 
parts are a dull cream-yellow. The sides of the head m front of tl.e g m 
covers variegated with pearl grey, yellow of various tints and pale J 
“d gill-covers lilac-purple clouded with dull azure-blue and gall tone 
Lins and cirri pale flesh-red tinted with lilac-purple. Doisal an 
y 1 1 fins flesh red strongly tinted towards the base with brownish purple- 
‘jotted w'iUi gaUsmne-yellow, the rays lightest,- the dorsal fin 
besides is crossed about midway between its base and apex y an o sc 
azure-blue bar. The pectoral, ventral, and anal fins pearl-grey, shaded w 
. clar . Abroitomi. Figure oblong-ovate; " “ 
^ and interior \ one with a memb— t.ld internally like a ec.end 
P 1 Zrf. double. Brand, ial raj, three; late,.. lino defied, dighU, interrupted and couo.tmg 
TltieTtrlrt tubes; dorsal fin abort midway between ,n„n« and caudal fin; Ismail o, of 
moderate size ; intestinal canal very long, slender, and rolled on itself. 
