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snout, and more especially by the absence of the ocellated 
spots behind the eyes, as well as by the much smaller size of 
the tendrils or cirri near the nostrils. Some marks are rep- 
resented in Gouan’s figure of this fish, but they appear only 
as faint stripes, and 1 have seen marks which appeared like 
them in only one individual, from which our description of 
the colours of this fish were taken. In another example the 
general colour approached to orange red, varied only in 
becoming paler on the lower surface; and in a third the 
anterior parts were dark brown, lighter, and approaching to 
yellow on the hindward part of the body, with two crimson 
lines running from behind the eyes downward to the sucking- 
organ. But the most beautiful of these examples was all over 
of a dusky red; the iris of the eyes with red radiations from 
the pupil. Two broad vermilion stripes on the cheeks, one 
from the eye obliquely backward, and another from the side 
of the head to the side of the sucker; pale vermilion bands 
across the back in front of the dorsal fin, which fin is dark, 
with six round bright vermilion spots along its root. Anal 
fin lively vermilion with a dusky border. The tail is round, 
and in the fii-st-mentioned example the central rays were much 
lengthened. 
