854 LIEUT. -COL. PLAYFAIR ON [Nov. 14, 



Third dorsal spine longest, and twice and a half in the length of the 

 head. 



Colour. — Olive, each scale with a darker margin. The naked parts 

 of the head, including the opercular margin, dark ; a bright pink 

 spot, half as large as the eye, at the angle of operculum ; sometimes 

 a small pink blotch at the root of the pectoral, and on the middle of 

 its superior margin. Caudal with a pink posterior margin. 



Length 1 1 inches. Creole name " L'e'clair." 



ri. Lethrinus ramak, Forsk. 



72. L. NEBULosus, Forsk. 



73. L. STRIATUS. 



L. striatiis, Steindn. Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges.Wien, 1866, p. 4/9, 

 pi. 5. f. 3 ; Playf. in Fishes of Zanz. p. 14.5. 



A specimen of this species was observed at Seychelles, correspond- 

 ing exactly to Dr. Steindacliner's description, and very distinctly 

 different from the specimen of L. nebulosus obtained at the same 

 place. Creole name "L' eclair." 



74. L. CjEruleus, C. & V. 



75. L. crocopterus, C. & V. 



76. Chrysophrys sarba, Forsk. 



77. Sph^rodon grandoculis. 



Scicena ffrandoculis, Forsk. p. 53. 

 Chrysophrys grandoculis, Cuv. & Val. vi. p. 134. 

 Spharodon grandoculis, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 113, t. 28. f. 2 ; 

 Giinth. Fish. i. p. 465. 



Hab. Seychelles ; Red Sea. 



78. Chrysophrys sarba, Forsk. 



ScORPjENID^. 



79. SCORP^NA POLYPRION. 



Scorpccna polyprion, Bleek. Natur. Tydsch. Neder. Ind. 1849, 

 Scleroparei, p. 21 ; Verhand. Batav. Gen. xxii. Bali, p. 5 ; ibid. 

 Sclerop, p. 7 ; Giinth. Fish. ii. p. 115. 



Creole name " Laf." 



Kab. Seychelles ; East-Indian archipelago. 



TeUTHIDIDjE. 



80. TeUTHIS CORALLINA, C. & V. 



81. T. suTOR, C. & V. 



82. T. ROSTRATA, C. & V. 



