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It is very probably the "wild Rat, bigger than a Cat" mentioned 

 by Bosman. 



A small collection of Fishes, formed during the voyage of H. M. S. 

 Chanticleer, and presented to the Society by the Lords Commission- 

 ers of the Admiralty, together with numerous other Zoological spe- 

 cimens obtained during the same voyage, was laid upon the table. 

 It contained among others a young individual of the Scyllium cirra- 

 tum, in the state in which it is described by Schneider as the Squalus 

 punctatus : a specimen of the Blennius pilicornis, Cuv., described ori- 

 ginally by Marcgrave, and remarkable for the long acicular tooth at 

 the back of the lower jaw on each side, a peculiarity which may here- 

 after cause it to be regarded as the type of a distinct genus : a spe- 

 cimen of the Antennarius scaber, Chironectes scaber, Cuv., also de- 

 scribed by Marcgrave : and two species which appeared to be new to 

 science, and which were thus characterized by Mr. Bennett : 



Chromis TasNiA. Chrom. brunneo-nigrescens : pinnis nigrescentibusj 

 caudali subrotundatd nigro fasciatim punctatissimd: macula ro- 

 tunda infraoculari, alterd ad basin pinnce caudalis superne, tee- 

 nidque ab oculo per medium latus ad pinnam caudalem ductd, 

 nigris, 

 D.-H, A.£. P. 13. C. 16. 

 Hab. apud Trinidad. 



Affinis Chrom. punctato, Cuv., (Labrus punctatus, L.). Differt a 

 figura Blochiana taenia laterali, pinnisque haud lineatis : differt etiam 

 numero radiorum pinnarum. 



Monacanthus setifeb. Mon. cauda hispidd : cirris brevibus mul- 

 tifidis raris conspersus : pinnce dorsalis radio %do longissimo : 

 pallide brunneus, lateribus mediis nigro undulatim longitudinaliter 

 lineatis : pinnce caudalis rotundatcefascid angustd submedid. 

 D. 1, 28. A. 29. C. 12. P. 12. 



A description, by the Rev. Robert Holdsworth, of a fish taken in the 

 seine, at Start Bay, on the south coast of Devon, in August 1825, 

 was read. Mr. Holdsworth regards the fish in question as the Urn- 

 brina, Scicena Aquila, Cuv. ; with which species, occasionally taken in 

 the English Channel, his description agrees. 



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