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EE.YTIIRINUS. 
sents it differently from our description. That author says it 
is pale red on the hack, and light coloured helow; hut the 
colour as marked by myself was a darker, or brick red, and 
only varied by being paler on the belly. 
The extreme length was thirteen inches, and to the end of 
the middle rays of the tail eleven inches and a half. The gape 
rather small; under jaw slightly longer than the upper. Eye 
of moderate size. Posterior border of the giU-cover slightly 
concave at its upper portion. The dorsal fin somewhat elevated 
at its origin; the first ray lower than the second; this fin lowest 
at the termination of the spinous rays. Pectoral slender, the 
fifth ray the longest, reaching opposite the beginning of the 
anal fin. Ventrals long. Lateral line slightly curved, and 
suddenly bent down as it approaches the tail. The caudal 
fin more than usually concave. 
Pin rays — dorsal twelve spinous and ten soft, pectoral fifteen, 
ventral one spinous and five soft, anal three spinous and ten 
soft, caudal eighteen, besides obsolete rays. 
