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These beautiful colours are described in somewhat similar, 
although more subdued terms, by Willoughby and Risso; but 
they may be expected to be far more faint when this fish 
comes to our coasts, if they be not then altogether changed 
in their aspect. There are, indeed, two species of this genus 
closely allied to each other, which are inhabitants of the 
Mediterranean, not readily to be distinguished, and both of 
them may, perhaps, be found to pay us an accidental visit. 
But, however this may be, I find it difiicult, on the score of 
colour alone, to assign to either of them the species of which 
the figure is here given, but which is a correct representation 
of an example which fell under my own inspection speedily 
after it was taken from the sea. The form and arrangement 
of the teeth are proofs of its bemg a member of this genus; 
of which no more than the two species above referred to have 
been recognised in Europe. 
Fin rays — dorsal eleven spinous and fourteen soft, pectoral 
sixteen, ventral one spinous and five soft, anal thiee spinous 
and twelve soft, caudal seventeen. 
END OF VOL. I. 
B. Fau'cett, Engraver and Printer^ East Lodge, Driffield. 
