448 spAUin.io. 



14, Sargus fasciatus. 



Sargxis fasciatus, Cm: Sf Val. vi. p. 59; Guichcn. Explor. Sc. Alf/ir. 

 Poiss. p. 48 ; ? Valenc. in Webb ^ BertheM, Hist. Nat. lies Ca'tiar. 

 Potss. p. 29 (not fig.). 



D. j^. A. ^. L. lat, 60. L. tranav. 9/16. 



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

 the head four times. Molars small, in two series. Incisors ^, 

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

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

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

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

 as broad as the interspaces between. 



? BrazU, Cuv. ^ Val. ; Mediterranean, GuicJi. ; Canary Islands, Vah 



a. Fine specimen. From the Haslar Collection. 



15. Sargus cervinus. 



Charax cervinus, Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 177. 



? Sargus cervinus, Valenc. in Webb Sf Berthem, Hist. Nat. Hes Canar, 



Poiss. p. 29. 

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

 hottentottus, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. Fishes, pi. 2.3. f. 1. 



]). 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 foiu' times. Molars smaU, in two series; incisors ^> 

 narrow, elongate, implanted in an oblique direction ; lips vety thick 

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

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

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

 them. 



Madeira ; Canary Islands ; Cape Seas. 



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



Collection. 



b. Stuffed. Cape Seai, Purchased of f-ir A. Smith.— Type of 



S. hottentottus. 

 e. 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 Sargi with thick lips, in the Seas 

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

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

 specimens caught in Madeira ; they all belong to the species with the 

 high body, Charax 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 supernumerary scales on tlic caudal fln. 



