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breast are tinged with pink. the
folds of the belly have little pink -- are
almost white. On the right side only
the name is gray but the gray color
spreads out backward on to 10 folds
between corner or nearly tip.
The pink in the furrows is deeper
than that on the folds. There is a
suggestion of the gray abdominal
band but it stops far short of the
ventral line and is only suggested.
Top of foot clear blue slate -- there
are two prominent but broken
ridges on each side of the median
ridge running parallel with it.
These ridges begin opposite the heel
and here each one is about 8 inches
from the median ridge; at the tip
of the snout where they end [illegible]
each is about 2 inches from the
median ridge.
Ruder edges of snout for about one
foot are pinkish
Flukes
Below have a narrow posterior edge of
gray and rest of lower surface a delicate
pink thickly lined with fine gray
lines so that general effect is a little
darker than sides of peduncle. The
fine grayish lines run from anterior