390 Zoological Society. 



long and soft ; grey next the skin, and sooty brown externally ; but 

 this last colour is confined to the tip of each hair, there being a con- 

 siderable space between the grey and brown portions, which is of a 

 very pale yellowish bro-wn : interspersed with the under-fur (especially 

 on the back) is an abundance of very long and harsher hairs, the 

 visible portion of which is of a brownish white colour, excej^t the 

 extreme point of each hair, which is blackish. The sides of the body 

 are of a pale dirty yellowish tint, and the under parts are dirty white. 

 The feet and tail are of an uniform very pale yellowish brown. The 

 ears are short and rounded, but with the apical portion slightly con- 

 tracted in width; they are well-clothed with pale dirty yellowish 

 hairs, except on the fore-part of the outer side, where there is an 

 admixture of deep brown hairs. 



The following " Notices of Fishes newly observed or discovered in 

 Madeira during the years 1840, 1841, and 1842," by the Rev. R. T. 

 Lowe, M.A., Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society, were 

 communicated to the Meeting. 



Family ScoMBRiDiE. 

 Genus Seriola, Cuv. and Val. 

 Seriola gracilis. Ser. elongata, fusiformis ; capite cubico, late- 

 ribus declivibus planis, oculis magnis : pinna dorsali prima trian- 

 gulari, secunda altiore ; secunda analisque (antice elevatis) radiis 

 posterioribus subproductis , inpinnulas subsecedentibus ; pectoralibus 

 lanceolatis elongatis, capite longioribus ; ventralibus mediocribus . 



li«aD. 9; 2'iaD. 3-f 20; A. 3 -f-20; P. 24 ; V. 1 -f 5 ; C. ^^^^ ; 



M. B. 6. Squamae lin. lat. 60. 



A single individual of this species has occurred, said to have been 

 thrown up in a gale. It measured six inches and three quarters in 

 length. Its nearest ally is S. bipinnulata (Quoy et Gaim.), Jen. in 

 Darw. Fish. p. 72. Like that species, it has no spine inclining for 

 wards before the dorsal, nor any free spines before the anal fin ; but 

 in the more complete connection and regularity of the hinder rays 

 of the second dorsal and of the anal fins, it possesses a degree more 

 of the typical Serioline character than that species. Still it is not 

 unlikely that a comparison of the two fishes may warrant, on some 

 future occasion, their separation from Seriola into a genus, which 

 may be called Cubiceps. 



The lower jaw shuts within the upper, like a box-lid ; forcibly re- 

 minding the observer of Tetragonurus, for a battered or bleached 

 state of which fish this example might have been easily mistaken. 



The colour was an uniform pale dull grey, with the fins and to- 

 wards the back darker and brownish. 



Fam. CoRYPH^NiD^. 

 Brama longipinnis. B. corpore abbreviato alto: squamis postice 

 caudam versus antrorsum aculeato-umbonatis ; pinna dorsali ana- 

 lique untice longe falcato-productis. 



D. 4 + 31; A. 2-f 26; P. 20; V. 1 -lr 5 ; C. ^^^ ; M. B. 7; 

 Sq. lin. lat. 41-45, 



