14 Sir R. H. Schomburgk on some new species of Fishes 



Centropristes macrophthalmus, Miill. et Tr. nov. spec. Brass-scale 

 Snapper. D. 10 + 11 : A. 3 + 8 : Length one foot*. 



" The breadth of the suborbital bone_, under which the upper 

 jaw can be hid in a great measure, is equal to half the diameter 

 of the eye. The eye is larger than the space between the eyes, 

 and amounts to a third of the length of the head. The bone 

 over the eye is compressed. The colour is red with numerous 

 darker spots upon the sides of the body and the angles of the 

 scales. The last ray of the dorsal and anal fin is elongated. It 

 resembles in a great measure Serranus filamentosus of Cuv. et Val. 

 (/. c. vi. p. 508), which must be removed from the genus Serranus 

 and added to Centropristes, where it will occupy a place near the 

 species above described. This observation refers likewise to the 

 following.^^ 



Centropristes oculatus, Miill. et Tr. Serranus oculatu^, Cuv. et 

 Val. /. c. ii. p. 266. Bream or Brim. 



The species of this genus are abundant in the sea around 

 Barbados. They are used as food, although they cannot be com- 

 pared to the " Black Harry " of the Americans, which belongs to 

 this genus, and is one of the most esteemed for the table. 



Priacanthus loops, Cuv. et Val. /. c. iii. p. 103. Goggle-eye 

 Snapper (?). D. 10 + 13 : A. 3 + 13. 



" The Barbados specimen has perpendicular bands on the back, 

 and several dark spots between the rays of the perpendicular fins. 

 A specimen which the Berlin Museum received from the Museum 

 in Paris, shows also traces of coloured bands." 



Fam. M^NiDES. 

 Gerres Zebra, Miill. et Tr. nov. spec. Shad. D. 9 + 10 : A. 3 + 7. 



" The snout is short, the eye large, the preoperculum without 

 denticulation. The colour is silvery, steel-blue above; five or 

 seven vertical bands give it some resemblance to G. subfasciatus 

 of Cuv. et Val. The height of the body is a third of its length, 

 and contains 2^ times the length of the second and third spine 

 in the dorsal fin, and three times of the second spine in the anal 

 fin." 



The Barbados Shad, although, properly speaking, a sea-fish, 

 is frequently found in ponds, where they are preserved, and in- 

 crease considerably in size and improve in taste. 



* By a misprint in the * History of Barbados,' p. 6(j&, tlie length is erro- 

 neously stated as one inch. — R. H. S. 



