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. anal fin, on a lake-red ground. Several purple lines radiate from all 

 sides of the orbit, and some pass over the preoperculum, interoper- 

 culum, and lower jaw. The dorsal is dark-purple, with green at the 

 base of the rays, and an orange band at the tips, spotted and finally 

 edged with blue. The anal has an orange streak along its base, 

 then a broad primrose- yellow band edged above and below by a nar- 

 row blue line, next a broad band of purple with many very regular 

 blue spots, and finally a narrow blue edging. The caudal is purple, 

 "with many plum-blue spots near its extremity in a vertical band. 

 The other fins are apparently colourless. The aspect of the fish is 

 that of a Julis, but the operculum and cheeks are scaly. 



1.5. Lepidoleprus australis. Lep. squamis corjioris ordinibus 

 plurimis aculeorum arete incumbentium histriictis ; pinna cmi 

 plus duplici altitudine pinnam dorsi posteriorem superante. 



Radii:— Bv. 6-Q; P. 16; V. 1, 6 ; D. 2, 11—89; C. 1. 



This is an example of a genus which had not previously been 

 detected in the southern hemisphere. It has the general form of 

 Lepidoleprus cmlorhynchus , but there are abundant specific differ- 

 ences, especially in the relative size of the fins, and in the arming 

 of the scales, which in the Antarctic fish consists of rows of closely- 

 incumbent strong spines. The author has compared it with exam- 

 ples of cadorhynchus from the Mediterranean, and also from Madeira, 

 both in the Society's museum, whose scales are totally different. 

 None of these examples have the first dorsal ray serrated, as it is 

 stated to be by writers who have descril)ed and figured the Green- 

 land and Iceland Macrourus ricpestris, yet Cuvier states that he has 

 ascertained the identity of the latter with the Mediterranean fish. 

 The first dorsal ray of L. australis is also smooth. There are sixty- 

 seven vertebrae, of which fourteen are abdominal. The collection 

 ontained three specimens. 



A platycepha.lus intermediate between fusciis and grandispitiis, a 

 scorpcenn, a chcironec/rs Avliich is figured in Ross's Annual for 1835, 

 a drijaiis closely re^^cmbiiiig its American prototypes, several hand- 

 some Baiistes and inonacaiilhi, a diodon and several teirodontes^ a 

 new form of torpedo, some fresh-water fi.slics, and several other sea 

 ones, are reserved for a future communication. 



A paper by T. C. Eyton, Esq., entitled " Catalogue of a Collection 

 of Birds from Malaya, with descriptions of the new species," was 

 read. 



"The collection of Birds, of which the following is a catalogue, 

 arc in the possession of Mr. Evans of the Wyle Lop, Shrewsbury, 

 having been collected by his brother in the above-mentioned coun- 

 try. This collection is particularly interesting when taken in con- 

 junction with that of the neighbouring i.slands of Sumatra and Java, 

 an account of which is published in the Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society, vol. xiii., by Sir T. Stamford RafHes and Dr. Horsfield. 



" The zoology of Malaya is altogether highly deserving of the at- 



