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Heliases axillaris. Hel. pallida cceruleo -fuscus? ; axilld nigra; 

 pinnis, prcesertim caudali analique, cceruleo-nigrescentibus. 

 D.n. A.-.V. 

 Affinis, ut videtur, Hel. anali, Cuv. et Val. Radius secundus pinna; 

 analis fortior, sequentes longitudine aliquantulura superans. Cor- 

 pus ovatum. 



Jul is Cuvieri. Julis cauda subquadratd: pinnce dorsalis radio 

 primo longissimo (quam tertius triplo longiore): riifescenti-brun- 

 neits cceruleo punctulatus ; capite virescente, vittis tribus latis 

 rufis ; pinnis dorsali analique luteis, sangnineo oblique linearis, 

 nigro late marginatis, cceruleoque fimbriatis ; hujusjascid margi- 

 nali lined cceruleo, longitudinali media alter dque ad basin notatd. 

 D.-A-. A.-A-. P. 12. C. 13. 

 This new species of Julis is one of those fishes, now becoming nu- 

 merous, which might be confounded with the Julis Aygula, ( Coris 

 Aygula, LaC6p.). The latter appears to have hitherto rested solely 

 on the figure and description preserved by Commerson, no specimen 

 of it having been referred to as existing in collections. A specimen 

 of that species has, however, recently been added to the Society's 

 Museum from a collection of fishes formed in India, and agrees well 

 with the figure published by LaCepede, in the truncation or even 

 sublunation of its caudal fin, and in its general form ; in its dried state 

 its colour is uniformly dull blackish brown. This specimen was ex- 

 hibited in illustration of the distinction between Julis Cuvieri and 

 Julis Aygula, and also to show that the fish figured under the latter 

 name by Dr. Riippel differed in various particulars, especially in the 

 rounded form of its caudal fin, from the species indicated by LaCe- 

 pede. To M. Ruppel's fish, it was remarked, the name of Julis 

 Ruppelii might properly be applied. 



Anguilla Mauritiana. Ang. maxilla superior e breviore, obtusd; 

 rostro complanato ; pinnce dorsalis initio pectoralibus quam anali 

 propiore; lined laterali conspicua : dorsojusco pallidoque gutta- 

 tint marmorato, lineolisque nigrescent ibus intertextis notato ; pin~ 

 nisfusco nebulosis. 

 P. 18? 

 Mr. Bennett availed himself of the opportunity afforded by the 

 exhibition of the several species of Pterois contained in the Mauri- 

 tius collection, to bring before the Committee a fish which he had 

 formerly regarded as the Pterois volitans, under which name it was 

 included in the catalogue of Sumatran fishes appended to the me- 

 moir of Sir T. Stamford Raffles. It formed part of the collection 

 presented to the Society by its founder and first President. It was 

 thus characterized : 



Pterois Russelii. Pter. genis spinosim late lineato- serratis ; osse 

 infra- orbitali antico prceoperculoque inferne spinosissimis : cirris 

 parvis sex, nasali utrinque duobusque infra -opcrcularibus : pinnis 

 pectoralibus caudalis basin attingenlibus. 

 D. 14. A. 1, P. 13. 

 Kodipungi. Russel, Coromandel Fishes, No. 133. 



