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collection^ and to ensure its rediscovery I add here a copy of the 
figure and description given by its discoverer. 
The head of this pretty little species is almost equal to one-fifth 
the length of the body. Mouth small, and slightly proboscidiform ; 
its cleft very small ; the upper lip a little longer than the lower. 
The head is of a conical form ; teeth none ; ear-opening well 
marked ; the eye reaches almost to the summit of the head. Body 
fusiform, flesh transparent ; the curvature of the back is very slight, 
and the longitudinal line of the lower surface is quite straight as 
far as the opercular opening, beneath which it takes a curve, and 
ascends along the lower profile of the head. The proportion of 
the greatest height of the body to its length is as 1:6; the anus is 
almost median in the length of the body, and about equally distant 
from the ventrals and from the anal. Scales very fine. Ventral 
with nine rays, the third being the longest, placed beneath the 
belly and opposite to the first dorsal. Eirst dorsal with thirteen 
rays, the third being the longest. This fin is triangular, trans- 
parent, and inserted at rather more than one- third of the total 
length from the tip of the snout. Anal with ten rays, the third 
and fourth equal, and the longest placed at a distance from the 
anus equal to that which separates the anus from the ventrals. 
Colour of the body, yellowish grey ; belly and cheeks, silvery ; 
commencement and upper surface of the head, tawny red. There 
