1867.] THE FISHES OF SEYCHELLES. 867 



upper jaw. Forehead straight. Two series of scales on the cheek, 

 with a single one below, the lower prseopercular limb being entirely 

 naked. Caudal with the lobes much produced. Pectorals long, 

 reaching to anal, falciform, with the point rounded. 



Colour. — General colour of the body dirty green, each scale with 

 a brownish margin. A broad green patch on the head below the 

 eye, continued as a band across the snout, above the upper lip and 

 below the lower one, leaving the lips and an irregular spot on each 

 side of the symphysis of the lower jaw of a dirty fawn-colour ; it is 

 also continued as a patch on the body, between the roots of the pec- 

 torals and ventrals, and as a series of spots from the latter to the 

 origin of the anal. Dorsal blue, with vertical yellowish bars on the 

 membranes. Anal bluish green, with a narrow, wavy, yellowish 

 median band. Caudal green, with a broad yellowish band along 

 each lobe. Ventrals with a similar band parallel to the first ray. 



Length 19 inches. 



169. Gerres lineolatus, Gthr. 



170. G. argyreus, Forst. 



Scicena argyrea, Forster. 



Gerres ivaigiensis, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Freyc. Zool. p. 292. 



G. argyreus, Cuv. & Val. vi. p. 478 ; Gunth. Fish. iv. p. 263. 



The specimens from Seychelles have the second dorsal spine two- 

 thirds of the height of the body. Creole name " Beau temps." 



Hub. Seychelles ; Mozambique ; Red Sea ; East-Indian archipe- 

 lago ; Port Jackson. 



171. G. POETi, C. & V. 



Pleuronectid.e. 



172. Rhomboidichthys pantherinus, Riipp. 



1 73. Plagusia marmorata, Blkr. 



PHYSOSTOMI. 



SlLURID^. 



174. Plotosus anguillaris, B1. 



scomberesocid^. 

 17.^. Belone annxjlata. 



Behne annidata, Russell, pi. 17.T ; Cuv. & Val. xviii. p. 447, 

 pi. 550; Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 244; Giinth. Fish. vi. p. 240. 

 Hab. Seychelles ; Indian Ocean ; Friendly Islands. 



176. Hemiramphus dussumieri, C. & V. 



177. H. georgii, C. & V. 



