10 LIEUT.-COL. PLAYFAIR ON FISHES FROM MADAGASCAR. [Jan. 9, 



opposite to the little colony of St. Mary's Island. All the others, 

 preserved in alcohol, were taken by me some miles up the river Mou- 

 roundava, on the west coast. Some of them live in salt aswell as in 

 fresh water," 



Most of these fishes have been already described in the ' Fishes of 

 Zanzibar :' two only are new. 



1. Ambassis PRODtrcTUS, Guich. Cat. Poiss. Madag. Mdm. Soc. 

 Imp. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, t. xii. p. 2. 



Hab, Mouroundava River. 



2. DuLEs Fuscrs, Cuv. & Val. 



3. Therapon servus, B1. 



4. scatophagxjs tetracanthus, laccp. 



5. DrEPANE PUNCTATA, Gm. 



6. Chrysophrys hasta. 



Sparus hasta, Bl. Schn. p. 275. 



Coius dafnia, Buch. Ham. Fishes of Ganges, p. 88, pi. 9. f. 29. 



Chrysophrys longispinis, Cuv. & Val. vi. p. 116 ; Scbleg. Faun. 

 Japon. Poiss. p. C8, pi. 32. 



C. berda, Cuv. & VaL I. c. p. 113. 



C. calamara, Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 48 (not C. & V.). 



C. hasta, Giinth. Fish. i. p. 490. 



Hab. Mouroundava River ; Bay of Bengal ; Chinese and Japanese 

 Seas. 



7. Lethrinus RAMAK, Forsk. 



8. Synancea verrucosa, Schn. 



9. Otolithtjs argentea, K. & v. H. 



10. Naucrates dxjctor, L. 



11. EauuLA DXJSsuMiERi, Cuv. & Val. X. p. 77, pi. 283; Cuv. 

 Rcgne An. 111. Poiss. pi. 62. f. 1 (bad) ; Giinth. Fish. ii. p. 500. 



Hab. Mouroundava River ; East-Indian Seas. 



12. GoBiTJS grandidierii, sp. n. 



X). 6 |-i-. A. |. P. 20. L. lat. 35-36. 



Eight longitudinal series of scales between the second dorsal and 

 anal fins. The height of the body is contained five times and one- 

 third in the total length ; the length of the head of adults four times, 

 and of smaller specimens thrice and a half in the same. Both the 

 breadth and the length of the head are considerably greater than 

 its height. Snout produced, more than four times the length of the 

 diameter of the eye, rounded. Cleft of mouth oblique ; lower jaw 

 prominent. Eyes small, one-tenth of the length of the head ; the 

 space between them is less than twice their longitudinal diameter. 



