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Show 90 ZOOLOGY OF TilE VOYAGE OF TilE BEAGLE. CLINUS CRINITUS. Jen. PLATE XVIII. Fig. 1. C. fuscus, nigro-maculatus: tentac~tlis palpebralibus e crinibus octo a radicibus sepamtis formatis, nasalibus et nucltalibus palmatis, omnibus parvis subcequalibus: pinna auali mdiis mollibus viginti quatuor·. B. 6; D. 26/11; A. 2/24; C. 13; P. 13; V. 3. LoNo. unc. 6. lin. 6. FoaM.-Depth one-fifth of the entire length. Head about one-fourth of the same, rather large, with the cheeks and gills a little inflated. Profile falling gently from the nape : the crown scarcely at all convex. Gape reaching to beneath the anterior part of the eye. Lips thick and fleshy, and partly reflexed, much resembling those of a Labrus. Lower jaw projecting a little beyond the upper, and inclining upwards to meet it. An outer row of strong conical teeth in each jaw, with a velutine band behind; the band broad above, but very narrow below. A largish triangular patch of velutine teeth on the vomer, and a smaller one on each palatine. Tongue free and fleshy, smooth. Eyes moderately large, their diameter one-fifth the lentlh of the head ; high in the cheeks, reaching to, but not interrupting, the line of the profile. The superciliary tentacles consist each of eight short bristles, all separate to the root, but forming together a closely compacted series: two on the nape, of the same length as them, are broad and palmated, the upper half only being divided into eight or ten slender filaments: two on the nostrils are similar to those on the nape, only somewhat smaller. The dorsal commences at the nape, a little behind the nuchal appendages, and has the spinous portion long, and of nearly uniform height, but no where ve•·y high. The spines increase very gradually in length as they advance, the first being the shortest: in the middle of the fin, they equal about one-third the depth of the body, or hardly so much : above each is a short filamentous tag, as in the Labridce. The soft portion is nearly twice the height of the spinous. A small interval between the termination of this fin and the caudal. The anal commences under the twelfth spine of the dorsal : its own two spines are very short, and not half the length of the soft rays, which last are not quite so long as those of the dorsal : the membrane between each of the rays is deeply notched. This fin terminates a very little before the dorsal. The caudal, when expanded, appears slightly rounded. Pectorals broad and rounded, about one-fifth of the entire length. Insertion of the ventrals directly underneath the commencement of the dorsal, and both in a vertical line with the posterior margin of the preopercle. These last fins are contained nearly nine times in the entire length. Body covered with moderately small scales ; the leugth and breadth of each scale nearly equal, with the basal portion nearly covered by an irregular fan of strire, eighteen or twenty in number. Head naked, but the crown and upper part of the snout studded with papillre, terminating upwards in pores. There are rows of minute scales between the rays of the dorsal for about one-third of ~heir height; also at the base of the caudal and pectorals, but none on the anal. The lateral h~1e commences behind the upper angle of the opercle at one-fourth of the d.epth i w~en ~ppos1te the eleventh ray of the dorsal, it begins to bend downwards, and contmues ~alh~g till opposite the seventeenth ray, when it gets to the middle of the depth; from that pomt 1t passes straight to the caudal. |