PISCES THORACICI. PERCA, 
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No. CXXV. 
Perca cauda sub-lunata ; spinis dorsalibus undecem; corpore oblongo-ovale, vitiis luteis, obliquis 
et longitudinalibus. 
The Perch with a tail slightly lunate ; an oblong-oval body, with oblique and longitudi¬ 
nal yellow fillets. 
Called by the Natives Karooi. 
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B. viii. D. 23. P. 16. V. 6. A. 12. C. 19. 
The body oblong-oval: the scales larger than in the last. 
The head less declivous and squamous. In the mouth, lips, jaws, tongue, and nostrils, no material difference 
is found; but the teeth are larger, more regular, and there are teeth in the palate; the eyes are much larger. 
The opercula serrate; the lateral line, and position of the anus, nearly alike in both. 
The fins resemble those of the last fish, in their situation and shape, only that the caudal, instead of bifid, is 
somewhat lunate. 
The colour. The crown darkish red, the lips and opercula faint pink, the back dark, with an obscure mixture 
of yellow. Between the ridge of the back and lateral line, there are oblique bands of dark yellow, then two 
fillets of brighter yellow, and still lower are four or five fillets of more obscure yellow. The belly white. 
Dorsal, anal, and caudal fins yellow; ventral yellow, intermixed with white. Pectoral fin faint pink. 
Length of the subject, seven inches. 
No. CXXVI. 
Perca cauda sub-lunata; corpore oblongo-ovale, vittis tribus fidvis ad latera; macula nigra 
semicirculari in pinna dorsali; acideis tribus ad operculum, et lamina serrata prope pinnam 
pectoralem. 
The Perch with a sub-lunate tail; an oblong-oval body, with three yellow fillets on the 
sides; a semicircular black spot on the dorsal fin ; three small spiculi on the edge of 
the operculum, and a serrated lamina near the pectoral fin. 
Called by the Natives Keelputa. 
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B. vi. D. 21. P. 13. V. 6. A. II. C. 18 . 
The body oblong-oval, compressed, squamous, scales small, somewhat square, but rounded at the posterior side, 
imbricate, tenacious. 
The head proportional, ovate, compressed, squamous ; front slightly declivous, naked, depressed. The mouth 
wide, horizontal; lips thickish. Jaws extractile, short, nearly equal. The teeth numerous in each jaw, but 
most in the upper; in the under more sparse, but in front a few are longer and crooked. Tongue roundish, 
smooth, free. Palate tuberculate, in the fore part. Eyes high, large, somewhat oval; iris yellowish-white. 
Nostrils double, in a shallow groove, one near the orbit, the other smaller, near the point of the rostrum. The 
