Dr. A. Gllnther on a Species of Spirobranchus. 67 



slighter degree, aud narrower as in the latter. It was found, 

 Avith many other interesting species, in the Chatham Islands 

 by H. H. Travers, Esq. 



StenelliiJsis jpumila. 



S. subparallela, ferrugiuea, tenuiter pubescens ; capite nigro, fronte 

 planata ; tuberibus antenniferis brevissimis ; antennis corpore 

 longioribus, articulis tertio quartoque elongatis, sequalibus ; 

 prothorace transverse, utrinque valde tumido, subtiliter punc- 

 tate ; elytris parallelis, irregulariter punctatis, linea nigra obscura 

 arcuata a basi usque ad marginem exteriorem postice terminata, 

 notatis ; femoribus valde clavatis ; tarsis articulo penultimo an- 

 guste bilobo. Long. 1| lin, 



Hab. Waikato. 



This is very different from any of the species described 

 by Mr. H. Bates ; it may be regarded as an aberrant 

 form. 



VII. — Note on a second Species 0/ Spirobranchus {C. &V.). 

 By Dr. Albert Gunther, F.R.S. 



Mr. Herbert Trevelyan has sent to the British Museum 

 two fishes from King-Williamstown, British Caffraria, which 

 are evidently identical with Sandelia Bainsii of Castelnau 

 (' M^m. sur les Poissons de I'Afrique austr.' p. 36) from the 

 Kowie river, near Grahamstown. The genus Sandelia differs 

 in nothing from Spirobranchus ; but the species is evidently 

 well distinguished by the following constant characters from 

 Sp. capensis : — 



Spirobranchus Bainsii. 

 D. J^. A. \. L. lat. 34. L. transv. 7/14. 



The maxillary extends nearly to below the middle of the 

 eye. The scales on the back and lower part of the side 

 are remarkably smaller than those on the middle of the 

 side. Scales on the cheek in six or seven rather irregular 

 series. An oblique blackish band crosses the cheek from 

 the eye to the angle of the prteoperculum. Operculum with 

 a black spot behind on a membrane between two fascicles of 

 spines. 



Length of the larger example 7 inches. 



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