I>r. A. (liiiitlier on a 6jpect'e»o/'Spirobiaticliu.s. 07 



slighter degree, and narrower as in tlie latter. It was found, 

 with many other interesting species, in the Chatham Islands 

 by II. II. Travcrsj Es(|. 



Steucllipsis jmviila. 



S. subparallohi, forruginea, tenuiter pubcsccns ; capite nigro, fronto 

 planata ; tuboribus antcuniferis brovissimis ; antennis corpore 

 longioribus, articiilis tertio (juartorjue elongatis, a;quaUbus ; 

 prothoracc transverse, ulriiuiuo valdo tumido, subtilitcr punc- 

 tato ; elytris parallelis, irregulariter punctatis, linea nigra obscura 

 arcnata a basi iisijne ad luargirioin exteriorem postico terminata, 

 notatis ; fomoribus valde tiavatis ; tarsis articido penultimo au- 

 guste bilobo. Long. \\ lin. 



Hah. Waikato. 



This is Very ditTerent from any of the species described 

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

 form. 



VII. — Xute OH a second Species o/Spirobranchus {C. d)V.). 

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



Mr. Herbert Trevelyax has sent to the British Museum 

 two fishes from King-Williamstown, British CafFraria, which 

 are evidently identical with Sandelia Bainsii of Castelnau 

 (' Mem. sur les Poissons de I'Afrique austr.' p. 36) from the 

 Kowie river, near Grahamstown. The genus Sandelia differs 

 in nothing from Spimhranchus ; but the species is evidently 

 well distinguished by the following constant characters from 

 Sp. capensis : — 



Spirobranchus Bainsii. 

 D. Yo- 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 pra!operculum. 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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