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ADDENDA. 



Page 17, after Mesoprion bohar, add :— 



34*. Mesoprion argentimaculatus. [694.] 



Scisena argentimaculata, Forsk. p. 50. 



Diacope argentimaculata, Cuv. $ Val. ii. p. 432 ; Riipp. Ail. Fische, p. 71, t. 19. f. 1. 



Mesoprion argentimaculatus, Giinth. Fish. i. p. 192. 



Seychelles. Bed Sea. 



Page 31, after Heterognathodon petersii, add :— 

 87*. Heterognathodon flaviventris. 



Heterognathodon flaviventris, Steindachner, Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. JJlen,1866, p. 778, pi. 13. fig. 6*. 



D. ™ A. ?■ L. lat. 46. L. transv. ^ 



Length of the head contained twice and three-fourths in the total without caudal, 

 and equal to the height of the body. A yellow band on each side of the belly, between 

 the mandible and the caudal. A greenish-yellow longitudinal band above the base 

 of the dorsal. 



Diameter of the eye contained thrice and three-fifths in the length of the head. 

 Width of the forehead two-elevenths, and the length of the snout two-sevenths of the 

 length of the head. Maxillary extending to below the middle of orbit. There are three 

 vertical series of scales between the eye and prseopercular angle. Prseoperculum finely 

 serrated behind and slightly concave. Last dorsal spine longest, equal to the distance 

 of the extremity of the operculum from the posterior margin of orbit. The last dorsal 

 ray extending beyond the base of the caudal. Third anal spine longest. Pectoral 

 seven-eighths of the length of the head, extending to the first soft ray of the anal. 

 Caudal deeply notched, with the upper lobe four-fifths of the length of the head. 

 Scales minutely serrated. (Steindachner.) 



Zanzibar. — Length 5^ inches. 



Page 45, after Lethrinus longirostris, add : — 



137*. Lethrinus genivittatus. 



Lethrinus genivittatus, Cuv. § Val. vi. p. 306, pi. 159 ; Steindachner, p. 478. 



Zanzibar. 



* The volumes containing these descriptions has not yet been published ; the references are taken from a 

 separate copy sent by the author. 



