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It is very probably the " wild Rat, bigger than a Cat" mentioned 

 by Bosman, 



A small collection of Fishes, formed during the voyage of H. M, S. 

 Chanticleer, and presented to the Society by the Lords Commission- 

 ers of the Admiralty, together with numerous other Zoological spe- 

 cimens obtained during the same voyage, was laid upon the table. 

 It contained among others a young individual of the Scyllium cirra- 

 tum, in the state in which it is described by Schneider as the Squalus 

 punctatus : a specimen of the Blennius pilicornis, Cuv., described ori- 

 ginally by Marcgrave, and remarkable for the long acicular tooth at 

 the back of the lower jaw on each side, a peculiarity which may here- 

 after cause it to be regarded as the type of a distinct genus : a spe- 

 cimen of the Antennarius scaler, Chironectes scaler, Cuv., also de- 

 scribed by Marcgrave : and two species which appeared to be new to 

 science, and which were thus characterized by Mr, Bennett : 



Chromis T^nia. Chrom. Irunneo-nigrescens : pinnis nigrescentibus ; 

 caudali sulrotundatd nigro fasciatim punctatissimd : rimcula ro- 

 tunda infraoculari, altera ad basin pinnce caudalis superni, tce- 

 nidque ab oculo per medium latus ad pinnam caudalem ductd, 

 nigris. 

 D. 44. A. 1. P. 13. C. 16. 

 Hal. apud Trinidad. 



Affinis Chrom. punctato, Cuv., {Lalrus punctatus, L.). Differt a 

 figura Blochiana taenia laterali, pinnisque baud lineatis : differt eliam 

 numero radiorum pinnarum. 



MoNACANTHUS SETiFER. MoH. caudd hispidu : cirris brevilus viul- 

 tifidis raris conspersus : pinned dorsalis radio 2do longissimo : 

 pallide Irunneus, lateribus viediis nigro undulatim longitudinaliter 

 lineatis : pinnce caudalis rotundatce fascid angustd submediu. 

 D. 1, 28. A. 29. C. 12. P. 12. 



A description, by the Rev. Robert Holdsworth, of a fish taken in the 

 seine, at Start Bay, on the south coast of Devon, in August 1825, 

 was read. Mr. Holdsworth regards the fish in question as the Um,' 

 brina, Scicena Aquila, Cuv.; with which species, occasionally taken in 

 the English Channel, his description agrees. 



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