SCYLLIUM PANTHERINUM.— Smith. 
Pisces. — Plate XXY. Fig. 3. — Female. 
S. superne purpureo-griseum, capite pinnisque maculis parvis, nigro-brunneis variegatis ; dorso-lateribusque 
annulis, figuribusque linearibus contortis notatis ; cirris ad maxillse marginem posteriorem attingen- 
tibus. 
Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head, the back, the sides 
superiorly, the dorsal fins and the upper surface of the pectoral fins a tint 
intermediate between lavender-purple and brownish purple red, the dorsal 
and pectoral fins with the reddish or flesh tinge strongest. The sides of the 
head inferiorly, the under parts of the body, and the anal and caudal fins 
yellowish grey, faintly tinted with flesh red. The upper and lateral parts of 
the head, the upper surface of the pectoral and ventral fins, and the lateral 
surfaces of the dorsal, anal, and caudal fins freely speckled with small 
blackish brown spots, on the head and pectoral fins very numerous and 
closely set. Back and sides variegated with brownish black rings scattered 
among a variety of other figures, consisting of highly contorted lines of the 
same dark colour, some of them approaching the figures of the letters E C 
and S : on the middle of the back the markings are smallest, most numerous, 
and most closely set ; on the sides they are much larger, and more distant 
from each other. 
Form, & c. — Body anteriorly rather robust, posteriorly slender. Head 
slightly depressed and tapered to the point of the snout, the latter narrow, 
and slightly rounded ; temporal spiracle rather large, subovate, and a little 
behind the outer angle of the eyelids ; nostrils waved, and the inner 
extremity of each concealed by a long, slender, and compressed cirrus, which 
internally, towards its base, is narrowly edged with a fold of thin skin. 
External to its base there is a slightly pointed cuticular prolongation from 
the anterior edging of the nostril, which forms a sort of rudimentary cirrus. 
The first described, or true cirrus, is posteriorly pointed, and extends back- 
wards as far as the hinder edge of the upper lip. Mouth semi-lunar, and 
the teeth, which are disposed in transverse rows, are small, slightly curved, 
and tridentate. The anterior extremity of base of pectoral fin directly under 
