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a wide foliated border. Lateral line arched to the place 
where it comes near the pectoral fin, and from thence straight. 
The dorsal fin begins opposite the margin of the anterior eye, 
the rays bordered with a wing, and the ccmnecting membrane 
deeply cut in; both it and the anal fin pass far back to the 
root of the tail, and then pass under it. Colour dusky yellow, 
in some examples deeper or reddish, with numerous irregular 
spots on the head, body, and fins, (mostly brown, but some 
light,) and round the borders of the body a series of large 
spots irregularly ocellated; sclerotic portion of the eye brown, 
and spotted, the margin bright yellow; under side white, 
tinged with red. The pectoral fin below smallest. Dorsal fin 
with ninety rays; anal seventy-two, bifid near their ends; 
upper pectoral fourteen, below twelve; ventrals above seven, 
below six; caudal seventeen, the middlemost longest. The 
tongue is almost conical, pointed, free. 
