854 LIEUT, -COL. PLAYFAIR ON [Nov. ]4, 



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 11 inches. Creole name " L'eclair." 



71. Lethrinus ramak, Forsk. 



72. L. NEBULOsus, Forsk. 



73. L. STRIATUS, 



L. striatus, Steindn. Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges.Wien, 18C6, p. 479, 

 pi. 5. f. 3 ; Playf. in Fishes of Zanz. p. 145. 



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

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

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

 place. Creole name "L' eclair." 



74. L. C^RULEUS, C. & V. 



75. L. CROCOPTERUS, C. & V. 

 7Q. Chrysophrys sarba, Forsk. 



77 . Sph^rodon grandoculis. 



Scicena grandoculis, Forsk. p. 53. 

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

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

 Griinth. 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." 



Hab. Seychelles ; East-Indian archipelago. 



Teuthidid.'E. 



80. Teuthis corallina, C. & V. 



81. T. sutor, C. & V. 



82. T. ROSTRATA, C. & V. 



