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CHUB. 
three inches and almost a fourth; the form stout, compressed 
at the sides, wide and round oyer the head and hack. Gape 
moderate, jaws nearly equal, upper lip broad, mouth and tongue 
fleshy, palate having a folded membrane; no teeth; nostrils close 
together, open, in a depression. Eye moderate. Scales on the 
body large and firm; lateral line descending, passing to the tail 
lower than the middle of the body. Dorsal fin single, elevated, 
behind the line of the ventrals, having nine rays; pectorals low, 
rounded, with fifteen rays ; the anal begins midway between the 
root of the ventrals and of the caudal, with ten rays; tail a 
little concave, with nineteen rays. The ventrals have eleven rays; 
the first two firm and simple. Colour disposed to dark olive on 
the top of the head, on the body dark grey with a tinge of blue, 
browner above, whiter below; the scales dark at the angle. The 
tail dark, anal and ventrals orange, i'aint on the hindmost rays 
Eyes orange, reddish above. 
