438 Dr. E. P. Wright on the Transportation of Living Fish. 
Coletira sechellensis, n. sp., Peters. 
This species is not only considerably larger than Coletira 
afra, but it also differs in the spurs being proportionally much 
shorter—not so long as the tibieze, but about one-third shorter. 
The colour is a sooty brown. The following are the mea- 
surements :-— 
metre 
Popalslene tht, 6 lovacs anh coger skupecvastoy: t 0-080 
PCa Boies ates Scars raters gp chen ie @ Pale) oe 0-021 
HRT en ROL Cat. Vt 8s tc suas clk inne tons 0-011 
Breadth OLOat fase). 5is.¢ scr a phage mg Se eee 0-005 
SUTRAS SAO SR SAAD RC i ANS pant ee I 0-019 
ALI eee ny oh stete chess tere: Aly mueeedone <imencl 0-028 
Wipperarmnd Sree aa ee eee is ar 0:0565 
JOG) ie Fc ot RR St di retail gua ce 0-011 
avery eM ey ake: agit Rea Sah alec 0-020 
AGES TAIN: SAAR A Shes cere ahs Reet Oe eats 0-023 
MOG apes cet oo. ad Crate niet eT hehe 0-0105 
SSUES Hay MAS Eby ote has SARe cleo tA BS ere 0-0165 
Leg-membrane across the middle ...... 0-033 
I found this bat on Mahé, Praslin, Silhouette ; and I believe 
it to be the only insectivorous bat to be met with in the 
islands. 
LVII.—Notes on the Transportation of Living Fish from 
South of the Equator to Europe. By Ep. PERCEVAL 
Wricnut, M.D., F.L.8., Professor of Zoology, Trinity 
College, Dublin. 
My very good friend Dr. J. E. Gray records, in the ‘ Annals’ 
for October last (antew, p. 319), the fact that Mr. Moore had 
succeeded, in September, in importing into Liverpool from the 
River Plate the first living fish that had been received from 
the south of the equator. This note brought to my mind the 
fact that I had succeeded in bringing as far north as Paris, in 
the month of December last (1867), specimens of the only 
freshwater Cyprinoid of the Seychelles Islands, 1. e. Haplo- 
chilus Playfairvi, Gthr. ; and as it is a matter of some interest 
that the results of all such experiments should be recorded, 
and the means adopted for carrying them out known, I ven- 
ture to give here the following extracts from my notebook :— 
‘6 This little fish is rather common in the mountain-streams 
on the eastern side of Mahé. These streams are perennial ; but 
