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H^LiASGS AxiLL A RIS. Ilel.palUde cceruleo-fuicus ?; axūlA nigrd; 

 pinnis, jnceserlim caudali analigiie, cceruleo-nigreicentibus, 

 D. U. A.tV. 

 Affinis, ut videtur, Hel. anali, Cuv. et Vai. Radius secundus pinna: 

 analis fortior, seąuentes longitudine aliquantulum superans. Cor- 

 pus ovatum. 



JuLis CuviERi. Julis cauda subquadratd : pinnce dorsalis radio 



primo longissimo {quam tertius triplo longiore): riifescenti-brun- 



neus cceruleo pnnctulatus ; capite virescente, vittis tribus latis 



rufis ; pinnis dorsali analigue luteis, sanguineo obligue lineatis, 



nigro tate marginatis, cceruleogue fimbriatis ; hujiisjascia margi' 



nali lined cosrulea longitudinali media alterague ad basin notata. 



D. tV. a. -rV. p. 12. C. 13, 



This new species o? Julis is one of those fishes, now becoming nu- 



merous, vvhich might be confounded with the Jidis Aygula, ( Coris 



Aygula, LaCep.). The latter appears to have hitherto rested solely 



on the figure and description preserved by Commerson, no specimen 



of it having been referred to as existing in collections. A specimen 



of that species has, however, recently been added to the Society's 



Museum from a coUection of fishes formed in India, and agrees well 



with the figure published by LaCepėde, in the truncation or even 



sublunation of its caudal fin, and in its general forra ; in its dried statė 



its colour is uniformly dull blackish brown. This specimen wasex- 



hibited in illustration of the distinction between Julis Cuvieri and 



Julis Aygula, and also to show that the fish figured under the latter 



name by Dr. Rūppel differed in various particulars, especially in the 



rounded form of its caudal fin, from the species indicated by LaCė- 



pede. To M. Riippel's fish, it was remarked, the name of Julis 



Ruppelii might properly be applied. 



Anguilla Mauritiana. Ang.maxilla superiore breviore, obtusd; 

 rastro complanato ; pinnce dorsalis initio pectoralibus quam annli 

 propiore; lined laterali conspicua : dorsojusco pallidoąue gutta- 

 tim marmorato, lineolisgue nigrescentibus intertextis notato ; pin- 

 nisfusco nebulosis, 

 P. 18? 

 Mr. Bennett availed hiraself of the opportunity afforded by the 

 exhibition of the several species oi Pterois contained in the Mauri- 

 tius collection, to bring before the Committee a fish vvhich he had 

 formerly regarded aS the Pterois volitans, under which name it vas 

 included in the catalogue of Sumatran fishes appended to the me- 

 moir of Sir T. Stamford Rafiles. It formed part of the collection 

 presented to the Society by its founder and first President. It was 

 thus characterized : 



Pterois Russelii. Pier. genis spinosim late lineato-serratis ; osse 

 infraorbitali antico prceoperculogue inferne spinosissiwis : cirris 

 parvis sex, nasali utringue duobusgue infra.opercularibus : pinnis 

 pectoralibus caudalis basin attingentibus. 

 D. 44. A. Ą. p. 13. 

 Kodipungi. Russel, Coromandel Fishes, No. 133. 



