PLATE LXXVIII. 
The general tint of this fish is a delicate rose colour, or pink> 
very prettilv speckled with extremely minute dots of white. The 
hides are pink, with an inner golden circle, and blue pupil ; and 
the tins are variegated, or barred with reddish. This beautiful 
creature is said to exceed, though rarely, an inch and a half in length- 
The upper figures in our plate exhibit the fish much above the 
natural size of our largest specimen, to afford an opportunity of 
delineating it with more correctness than could conveniently be ac- 
complished within a smaller compass. The dorsal fin, which i* 
placed far behind, contains five rays ; pectoral, eleven apparent ray* * 
ventral four : anal five : and caudal twelve. 
