448 srAEiD.E. 



14. Sargus fasciatus. 



Sarg'us fasciatus, Cur. Sf Veil. vi. p. 59 ; Guichen. Explor. Sc. Algh\ 

 Poiss. p. 48 ; ? Valenc. in Webb ^ Bvrthelot, Hist. Nat. Ties Canar. 

 Poisg. p. 29 (not fig.). 



D. ^. A. f^. L. lat. 60. L. transv. 9/16. 



The height of the body is 3^ in the total length, the length of 

 the head foiu' times. Molars small, in two series. Incisors ~, 

 narrow, elongate, implanted in an oblique dii-ection ; Hps veiy thick 

 and fleshy ; snout rather elongate, twice the diameter of the eye. 

 The pectoral fin scarcely reaches to the origin of the anal. Whitish 

 (in spiiits), with seven broad brown cross-bands, each three times 

 as broad as the interspaces between. 



? Brazil, Cuv. 6f Veil. ; Mediterranean, Guicli.; Canary Islands, Veil. 



a. Fine specimen. From the Haslar Collection. 



15. Sargus cervinus. 



Cliarax cervinus, Lowe, Trans. Zool. Sac. ii. p. 177. 



? Sargus cervinus, Valenc. in Webb 8f Berthelot, Hist, Nat. lies Oiunr. 



Poiss. p. 29. 

 Sargus fasciatus, Valenc. l. c. pi. 9. f. 2 (not descript.). 

 hottentottus. Smith, El. Zool. S. Afr. Fishes, pi. 23. f. 1. 



r>. JLi_. A. ^. L. lat. 58-60*. L. transv. 9/16. 



The height of the body is 2| in the total length, the length of 

 the head four times. Molars small, in two series ; incisors -g-' 

 narrow, elongate, implanted in an obHque direction ; lips very thick 

 and fleshy ; snout rather produced, twice the diameter of tlie eye. 

 The pectoral reaches beyond the origin of the anal. Shining golden, 

 with seven brown cross-bands, broader than the interspaces between 

 them. 



Madeii'a ; Canary Islands ; Cape Seas. 



a. Very fine specimen. Lanzarote. From the Rev. R. T. Lowe's 



Collection. 

 h. Stuffed. Cape Seas. Purchased of Sir A. Smith. — Tyjje of 



/S. hottentottus. 

 c. Young. Cape Seas. Presented by Sir- A. Smith. 



If we could always depend on the correctness of the descriptions 

 given by Valenciennes, it would appear that there exist one or even 

 two other species of these banded Sctrgi -ndth thick lips, in the Seas 

 of Madeira and the Canary Islands. The Rev. R. T. Lowe has 

 kindly communicated to me Ids notes, taken on the spot, from seven 

 specimens caught in MadeLi-a ; they aU belong to the species with the 

 high body, Cliarax cervinus, Lowe. The only discrepancy from my 

 diagnosis, taken from a Lanzarote specimen, is, that Mr. Lowe states 

 65-66 scales of the lateral line ; but. possibly, the small scales 



* Sometimes with several superniunerary scales on the caudal fin. 



