52 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on Fishes 



of it ; two spines below the orbit ; a very long spine, flanked 

 by a similar one on each side, in front of the coronet, which 

 is rather elevated and terminates in five spines. Snout three 

 times as long as the eye, half the length of the head. Dorsal 

 with 18 rays, inserted on four segments, two of the body, two 

 of the tail. Yellow laterally and ventrally, brown dorsally, 

 with dark brown rings ; most of the spines yellow at the tip. 



A single specimen, measuring 85 millim. when stretched 

 out, was picked up at Muscat by Surgeon-Lt.-Col. A. S. G. 

 Jayakar, who, on kindly sending it as a present to the 

 British Museum, pointed out to me its close affinity to 

 //. hystriXy Kaup. The latter differs, however, in the longer 

 snout and the shorter and more acutely pointed spines on the 

 head, also in the coloration. 



Dr. Jayakar is, I regret to hear, leaving Muscat. It 

 gives me great pleasure to connect his name with this 

 latest discovery of his at the station where for so many 

 years he has been collecting fishes for the British Museum, 

 with the result of enriching ichthyology by many new species, 

 which have been described in the ' Proceedings of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society ' and in these ' Annals.' 



VI. — A List of the Fishes collected by Mr. Rupert Vallentin 

 in the Falkland Islands. By G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. 

 With Notes by the Collector. 



Trachinidse. 

 1. Eleginus maclovinus, C. & V. 

 " ' Mullet,' as they are called, abounded in the sea, especially 



