[2 Fishes of the Sou tit Pad/},. 



Scuticaria marmorata Lacepdde . 



Four specimens, Nos. 2399-2402 B. M., from Nukuhiva, Mar- 

 quesas Ids. 



Family MORINGUID^B. 



Moringua javanica Kaup. 



( me specimen, No. 2003* B.M., from Nukuhiva, Marquesas Ids. 

 Bchidna polyzona Richardson . 



< me specimen, No. 2001 B. M., from Nukuhiva, Marquesas Ids. 



Echidna amblyodon Bleeker . 



Two specimens, No. 2003* and 2004 B. M., from Nukuhiva, 

 Marquesas Ids. 



Family PLOTOSIM. 



Plotosus anguillaris l Lacep£de). 



Three specimens, Nos. 1256, 1326 and 1327 B. M., from 

 Shortland Id., Solomous. 



Family BKLONIIXE. 



Tylosurus giganteus (Schlegcl . 

 I I '.clone a mi 11 lata Cuv. & 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., from Fate, 

 New Hebrides. 



Family EX0CO3TID.E. 

 Hemiramphus australensis Scale, 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; iuterorbital 

 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 exactly 

 midway between tip of lower jaw and posterior margin of the 

 opercle; teeth in both jaws in villiform bands; the origin of the 



