Year
Unknown
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Transcription
Purple, blue black, round it fin return line
Eysis brown where shaded
other parts of Eysis, pale
Their Shades round
the lateral, are a bright
Malt
Madwalta
Seiji Sept 1840
[illegible]
1865.
# Madwalta, Seijis.
Pectoral fin bister ground
but more blue than
body
Central light brown mark white with pale blue
within the dotted line, in tail flesh color
Edge of tail as marked, yellow
Behind & edge of Mouth pale, every thing else same as
Body
Body Bister with slate
reflections
Dorsal fin for pale blue ground, the
shaded part are midis orange
bands blended with pale blue
are the smallest divisions, edge
upper edge small blue
Cores color 1 body
Anul same as Dorsal Fin