12 Fishes of the South Pacific. 
Scuticaria marmorata (Lacépéde). 
Four specimens, Nos. 2399-2402 B. M., from Nukuhiva, Mar- 
quesas Ids. 
FAMILY MORINGUIDA. 
Moringua javanica Kaup. 
One specimen, No. 2003* B.M., from Nukuhiva, Marquesas Ids. 
Echidna polyzona (Richardson). 
One specimen, No. 2001 B. M., from Nukuhiva, Marquesas Ids. 
Echidna amblyodon (Bleeker). 
Two specimens, No. 2003* and 2004 B.M., from Nukuhiva, 
Marquesas Ids. 
Famity PLOTOSIDAS. 
Plotosus anguillaris ( Lacépéde). 
Three specimens, Nos. 1256, 1326 and 1327/3) Me sirem 
Shortland Id., Solomons. 
FAMILY BELONIDZ. 
Tylosurus giganteus (Schlegel). 
(Belone annulata Cuy. & Val.) 
One specimen, No. 747 B. M., from Tubuai, Austral Ids. 
Tylosurus choram (Forskal). 
One specimen, No. 1357 B. M., from Tahiti. Length 28 in. 
It is referred to this species with some doubt. 
Belone platura Bennett. 
Three specimens, Nos: 1070, 1071, 1072 B: M.; fromebare 
New Hebrides. 
Famity EXOCCGHTIDA. 
Hemiramphus australensis Seale, new species. 
Depth 4.78 in head; head 2.75; beak anterior of the upper 
jaw 4.30 in length; eye 7.40 in head, 3.75 in beak; interorbital 
space slightly concave with two distinct grooves; D. 16; A. 15; 
scales 56. 
Body elongate, covered with deciduous scales; the depth but 
slightly greater than the width; head with lower jaw prolonged 
into a beak; the upper jaw short, its shape like a triangular flap, 
its length equal to its width; the tip of the upper jaw is exadtly 
midway between tip of lower jaw and posterior margin of the 
opercle; teeth in both jaws in villiform bands; the origin of the 
