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BLUEFIELDS. 
rather unpleasing aspect he named Sucking-fish, 
though without reason, as far as I could find. I 
rather think he confounded it with the Remora, but 
it was a species of Elacate ; and, as I believe, like 
the former, undescribed. I shall name it, from the 
form of the caudal and pectoral fins, E, falci^innis* 
Besides these, there was a pair of King-mullets 
{XJpeneus maculatus^ Cuv.), called also Queen-mul- 
let, and, from its depending beards (which are, 
however, in some specimens entirely wanting), Goat- 
fish. This is a beautiful fish ; its general hue is 
pink, fading to white below, with three large livid 
spots on each side ; the central portion of each scale 
on the upper parts is of a pale pearly azure tint. A 
specimen of the beautiful Angel Chmtodon (Holo- 
canthus ciliaris)^ and several Snappers and Grunts, 
made up the booty ; together with a large crustacean 
Length 8 to 10 inches. Body and fins marbled with red, brown, 
black, and grey ; the marblings on the huge pectorals resemble the 
pencilling of some moths ; the basal part of their under surface is 
deep-hlack, marked with round white spots. The spots and marks 
on the body are very irregular in form, sinuous, and confluent ; with 
darker edges. The caudal is pale reddish, with three transverse 
bands of dark brown. The irides are yellowish. 
* Elacate falcipinnis, mihi. Height of body in proportion to the 
total length, as 1 to : length of head to total length as 1 to 5|. 
Pectorals falcate, about as long as the head ; ventrals straight, 
pointed, about two-thirds as long as the pectorals : pree-dorsal spines 
ten, small : dorsal and anal low ; caudal large, somewhat forked ; the 
lobes falcate; the upper lobe considerably exceeding the lower. 
Length eleven inches. Irides pearly white. Body blackish above, 
grey beneath ; a broad band of deep black runs along each side from 
muzzle to tail, bounded both above and below by a whitish band of 
similar breadth. Fins black : the caudal tipped obliquely with white 
on both lobes. 
