12 Fishes of the South Pacific. 



Scuticaria marmorata (Lacepede). 



Four specimeus, Nos. 2399-2402 B. M., from Nukuhiva, Mar- 

 quesas Ids. 



Family MORINGUID^. 

 Moringua javanica Kaup. 



One specimen, No. 2003* B.M., from Nukuhiva, Marquesas Ids. 

 ^Echidna polyzona (Richardson). 



One specimen, No. 2001 B. M., from Nukuhiva, Marquesas Ids. 



^Kchidna amblyodon (Bleeker). 



Two specimens, No. 2003* ^^^^1 2004 B. M., from Nukuhiva, 

 IMarquesas Ids. 



Family PLOTOSID^. 

 Plotosus anguillaris (Lacepede). 



Three specimens, Nos. 1256, 1326 and 1327 B. M., from 

 Shortland Id., Solomons. 



Family BELONID.F:. 



Tylosurus giganteus (Schlegcl;. 

 {Beloiie anuulata Cuv. & Val. ) 



One specimen. No. 747 B. M., from Tubuai, Austral Ids. 



Tylosurus choratn (Forskal). 



One specimen, No. 1357 B. M., from Tahiti. Length 28 in. 

 It is referred to this species with some doubt. 



Belone platura Bennett. 



Three specimens, Nos. 1070, 1071, 1072 B. M., from Fate, 

 New Hebrides. 



Family EXOCCETID.F:. 

 Hetniramphus australensis vSeale, new species. 



Depth 4. 78 in head; head 2.75; beak anterior of the upper 

 jaw 4.30 in length; eye 7.40 in head, 3.75 in beak; interorbital 

 space slightly concave with two distinct grooves; D. 16; A. 15; 

 scales 56. 



Body elongate, covered with deciduous scales; the depth but 

 slightly greater than the width; head with lower jaw prolonged 

 into a beak; the upper jaw short, its shape like a triangular iiap, 

 its length equal to its width; the tip of the upper jaw is exacflly 

 midwa}' between tip of lower jaw and posterior margin of the 

 opercle; teeth in both jaws in villiform bands; the origin of the 



