The _colours_, also, as they appear in spirits, are rather different.
The general ground of the body is olivaceous grey, but paler than in
the male specimen, and inclining to yellowish, with faint indications
of vertical bands, and also a few dark spots towards the tail end.
Dorsal and anal spotted, the former more so than the latter. Mr.
Darwin’s notes, taken from the recent fish, merely state,—“with dull
red transverse lines.”
The _S. quadricornis_ is stated by Cuvier and Valenciennes to be very
common at the Mauritius, whence it may not improbably range as far
eastward as the Keeling Islands.