Body brown, paler beneath, with six transverse blackish-brown bands; the first placed across the eye and front angle of the gill flap; the second obliquely across the pectoral fin, and the three next, nearly equidistant, straight across the body, the last band placed between the spine and the base of the rays of the tail; and with a black longitudinal line between the eyes.

" It seemed to me that Rogers turned visibly paler; there was certainly fear in the glance he turned upon my companion.

" "And suppose it were discovered?" asked the woman, whose face had grown considerably paler.

For perhaps a minute thereafter she sat so, her great eyes unconsciously opening wider and wider, her brown skin shading paler second by second.