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Heltases axillaris. lid. pnllidu ccBrnleO'fuscus'? ; axiUanigru; 

 pitinis, prccsciiim caudali anallgue) caruleo-yiigre&centibus . 



U.\k. A. .V. 

 Affinis, ut videtur, Hel. nnali, Cuv. et Val. Radius secundus pinnae 

 analis fortior, sequentes longitudine aliquantulum superans. Cor- 

 pus ovatum. 



JuLis CuviEiti. Julis Cauda subquadratd : pinnce dorsalis radio 

 primo longissinio [quain tertius triplo longiore): riifescenti-brun- 

 neus cceruleo punciulatiis ; capite virescente, vittis tribiis latis 

 ritfis ; pitinis dorsali analique lideis, sanguineo oblique Uneatis, 

 nigro late marginatis, ccoruleoque fimbriatis ; hujusjascid margi- 

 nali linea cceruled longitudinali media alter aque ad basin notata, 

 D. -^. A. -rV. P. 12. C. 13. 

 This new species oi Julis is one of those fishes, now becoming nu- 

 merous, which might be confounded with the Jidis Aygida, ( Coris 

 Aygula, LaCep.). The latter appears to have hitherto rested solely 

 on the figure and description preserved by Commerson, no specimen 

 of it having been referred to as existing in collections. A specimen 

 of that species has, however, recently been added to the Society's 

 Museum from a collection of fishes formed in India, and agrees well 

 with the figure published by LaCepede, in the truncation or even 

 sublunation of its caudal fin, and in its general form ; in its dried state 

 its colour is uniformly dull blackish brown. This specimen was ex- 

 hibited in illustration of the distinction between Julis Cuvieri and 

 Julis Aygula, and also to show that the fish figured under the latter 

 name by IJr. Riippel differed in various particulars, especially in the 

 rounded form of its caudal fin, from the species indicated by LaCe- 

 pede, To M. Ruppel's fish, it was remarked, the name of Julis 

 Ruppelii might properly be aj)plied, 



Anguilla Mauritiana. Ang.maxilld superior e brevio re, obtiisd; 

 rostro complanalo ; pinnae dorsalis initio pectoralibus quam anali 

 piropiore ; lined laterali conspicud : dorsojiisco paUidoque gutta- 

 tim marmorato , lineolisque nigresceidibus intertextis notato ; pin- 

 nisfusco nebulosis. 

 P. 18? 

 Mr. Bennett availed himself of the opportunity afforded by the 

 exhibition of the several species of Pterois contained in the Mauri- 

 tius collection, to bring before the Committee a fish which he had 

 formerly regarded as the Pterois voliians., under which name it was 

 included in the catalogue of Sumatran fishes appended to the me- 

 moir of Sir T, Stamford Rafflts. It formed part of the collection 

 presented to the Society by its founder and first President. It was 

 thus characterized: 



Pterois Russelii. Pter.genis spinosim late lineato-serratis ; esse 

 irifra-orbitali antico prceopercidaqtie injerne spinosissiinis : cirris 

 parvis sex, fiasali utrinque duobusque itT/ra-opercularibus : pitinis 

 pectoralibus caudalis basin attingeritibus, 



Kodipungi. Russel, Corotnandel Fishes, No, 133, 



