846 LIEUT.-COL. PLAYFAIR ON [NoV, 14, 



Parotides et regions supra-orbitaires egalement couvertes d'epines. 

 En dessous la peau est granuleuse. 



Coloration: En dessus d'un brun cendre avec des taches brun 

 fonce bordees de noir, distribuees plus ou moins re'gulierement sur la 

 tete, le dos et la face superieure des membres ; en dessous, d'un 

 brun jaunatre uniforme sur le ventre et la face inferieure des mem- 

 bres, et d'un noir fuligineux pointille de jaunfitre sur la gorge. 



Dimensions : Tete et tronc reunis 68 millim., memb. ant. 40 

 millim., memb. post. 83 millim. 



Hab. Benguella. Un seul individu par M. d'Anchieta; il porte 

 le nom vulgaire de " Minongo." 



Ce crapaud se rapproche beaucoup du B. tuberosus, Giinther 

 (Batr. Salientia, p. CO, pi. 3. fig. C), dont il semble differer par la 

 forme des parotides, par des epines moins fortes sur les tubercules 

 cutanes, par I'existence d'un pli de la peau au bord interne du tarse, 

 tandis que cbez I'espece de Fernando Po ce pli n'existe pas et est 

 remplacc par des tubercules, &c. Cependaut pour arriver a une 

 opinion decisive il conviendrait de pouvoir comparer les deux especes. 



6. The Fishes of Seychelles. By Lieut. -Colonel R. L. 

 Playfair, F.Z.S., H.M. Consul- General in Algeria. 



(Plates XL. & XLL) 



The Seychelles Archipelago is included in the region the ichthyo- 

 logy of which was described in ' The Fishes of Zanzibar.' Since the 

 publication of that volume I have paid another visit to those remark- 

 able islands ; and during a stay of nearly two months there I have 

 been enabled to add very considerably to my former collections. I 

 have obtained fifty-five additional species, of which five are new to 

 science, and I have observed many others not previously known to 

 exist there. In all I am enabled to pviblish a hst of 211 species, 

 only fifteen of which are given on other authority than my own ob- 

 servation. 



I cannot refrain from recording the obligation I owe to Swinburne 

 Ward, Esq., H.M. Civil Commissioner, whose interest in everything 

 connected with sport and natural science is as unbounded as his 

 hospitality. 



ACANTHOPTEIIYGIL 

 Percid^. 



1. Etelis carbunculus, C. & V. 



2. Aprion virescens, C. & V. 



3. Anyperodon leucogrammicus, Reinw. 



Two specimens of this fish were obtained at Seychelles, — the first 



