438 Dr. E. P. Wright on the Transportation of Living Fish. 



Coleiira sechellensisj n. sp., Peters. 



This species is not only considerably larger than Coleiira 

 ofiaj but it also differs in the spurs being proportionally much 

 shorter — not so long as the tibiae, but about one-third shorter. 

 The colour is a sooty brown. The following are the mea- 

 surements : — 



metre. 



Total length 0-080 



Head 0-021 



Height of ear 0-011 



Breadth of ear 0-005 



Tragus 0-019 



Tail 0-028 



Upperarm 0-0565 



Forearm 0-011 



Thigh 0-020 



Leg 0-023 



Foot 0-0105 



Spur 0-0165 



Leg-membrane across the middle 0*033 



I found this bat on Mah^, Praslin, Silhouette ; and I believe 

 it to be the only insectivorous bat to be met with in the 

 islands. 



LYII. — Notes on the Transportation of Living Fish from 

 South of the Equator to Europe. By Ed. Perceval 

 Weight, M.D., F.L.S., Professor of Zoology, Trinity 

 College, Dublin. 



My very good friend Dr. J. E. Gray records, in the ^ Annals' 

 for October last (antea^ p. 319), the fact that Mr. Moore had 

 succeeded, in September, in importing into Liverpool from the 

 Biver 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, i. e. Haplo- 

 chilus Playfairiij 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 : — 



^' This little fish is rather common in the mountain -streams 

 on the eastern side of Mahe. These streams are perennial ; but 



