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



Parotides et regions supra-orbitaires egalemeut 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 regulierement sur la 

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

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

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



Dimensions : Tete et tronc reunis 68 millim., memb. ant. 46 

 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. 60, pi. 3. fig. C), dont il seinble diflferer 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 cliez I'espece de Fernando Po ce pli n'existe pas et est 

 remplace par des tubercules, &c. Cependant 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. & XLI.) 



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 remai-k- 

 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 additionar 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 publish a list of 2 1 1 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. 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



PeRCIDtE. 



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 



