1868.] DR. A. GUNTHKR ON FISHES FROM ST. HELENA. 225 



4. Report on a Collection of Fishes made at St. Helena by 

 J. C. Melliss, Esq. By Dr. Albert Gijnther, F.R.S., 

 F.Z.S., &e. 



(Plates XVIII. & XIX.) 



The British Museum hRs lately received a collection of very fine 

 examples of marine Fishes made at St. Helena by J. C. Melliss, Esq. 

 Various naturalists have brought to Europe collections from that 

 island ; but tliey were all made during a more or less hurried visit, 

 and I believe that Mr. Melliss is the first resident on the island who 

 has paid attention to this subject. The number of species contained 

 in this first collection is not great ; yet there are several which are 

 apparently undescribed, and others new to this part of the Atlantic 

 fauna. I have no doubt that Mr. Melliss will be richly rewarded 

 by discoveries if he continues his researches, and that the fish- 

 fauna of St. Helena will prove to be quite equal to that of Madeira 

 in extent as well as in interest. In the following list I have marked 

 the localities from which the species were previously known, thereby 

 indicating the affinity of this fauna to those of other parts of the 

 Atlantic : — 



1. Holocentruni longi/pinne, C. & V. West Indies. 



2. Centropristis brasiliensis, Barnev. West Indies. 

 ^. Holanthias fronticinctus, sp. n. St. Helena. 



4. Serranus impetiffinosus, Miill. & Trosch. West Indies. 



5. Rhypticus saponaceus, Bl. Schn. AVest Indies, Cape of Good 

 Hope, Cape Verde Islands. 



6. Priacanthus boops, Forst. St. Helena. 



7. Priacanthus, sp. n. 1 



8. Apogon axillaris, Val. Island of Ascension. 



9. Pomatomus telescopium, Risso. Mediterranean and neighbour- 

 ing parts of the Atlantic. 



10. Sargus capensis, Smith. Cape of Good Hope. 



11. Ch(Btodon sanct<B helence, sp. n. St. Helena. 



1 2. Cirrhitichthys fasciatus, C. & V. Poudicherry. 



13. Sebastes nigropunctatus, sp. n. St. Helena. 



14. Scorpeena mellissi, sp. n. St. Helena. 

 \ft. Scorpcena scrofina, C. & V. Brazil. 



16. Thyrsites prometheus, C. & V. Madeira. 



17. Scomber colias, Gm. North Atlantic. 



18. Echeneis naucrates, L. Tropics. 



19. Caranx tnuroadsi, Sehleg. Japan. 



20. Caranx dentex, Bl. Schn. From the Mediterranean to the 

 coast of Brazil. 



21. Sertola lalandii, C. & V. Atlantic, Japan, Australia. 



22. Lichia glauca, L. Mediterranean, Atlantic. 



23. Xiphias gladius, \j. Mediterranean, Atlantic. 



24. Salarias atlanticus, C. & V. Madeira, Atlantic, Panama. 



25. Aulostoma coloratum, Miill. & Trosch. W^est Indies. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1868, No. XV. 



