1910.] AND INVERTEBRATES OP ST. HELENA. 99 



water, 70 to 100 fms., in daytime. Both are excellent table-fish, 

 but the present species is only about half the size of the Deep- 

 water Bull's-eye, not usually exceeding a foot in length. Both 

 are of a general red colour, but in cruentatus the colour is darker 

 and there is more black on the sides. In the present species the 

 scales are smaller and the lateral line has a much steeper curve 

 behind the head ; the eye is larger in proportion to the head and 

 the rays of the dorsal and ventral are not so rough, in fact the 

 soft rays are quite smooth. According to the British Museum 

 Catalogue, P. cruentatus occurs in the tropical and subtropical 

 Atlantic, as well as in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the localities 

 mentioned being Bermuda, Jamaica, West Indies, west coast of 

 Mexico ; also Zanzibar, Samoa, Tahiti, and the East Indies. 



PlMELEPTERUS GALLVEII, Sp. 11. (Plate VI.) 



D. XI, 12 ; A. Ill, 11. Lat. line 80 + . Trans, sc. 13 or 14/20. 



Soft portion of dorsal much higher than last spine ; head 4| in 

 total length, measured to end of middle caudal rays ; eye 4| 

 in length of head. Height 2| times in total length. Horizontal 

 portion of teeth 1 1 times as long as the vertical measured inside, 

 equal in length to the vertical measured externally. 



Length of single specimen examined 15| inches to end of middle 

 caudal rays. 



I obtained only one specimen of this genus, and it does not 

 appear to agree with any of the species previously described. It 

 differs from P. boscii Lacep., which occurs at Madeira, in having 

 smaller scales and a smaller eye ; in fuscus Lacep., which is found 

 at the Cape, the end of the spinous portion of the dorsal and the 

 soft dorsal are about equal in height, whereas in my specimen the 

 soft portion is much higher than the last spine ; it differs from 

 P. elegans Peters, in having smaller scales with their posterior 

 apices more pointed and the body is less elongated. It resembles 

 P. analogies Gill most closely, but in the latter there is less 

 difference in height between the end of the spinous and the 

 beginning of the soft portion of the dorsal, and the colour in my 

 specimen is a bluish grey, while that of analogas is reddish 

 brown. In P. leutescens Jordan & Gilbert, again, the eye is 

 larger and the posterior apices of the scales more pointed. 



The specimen was called a bream by the fisherman from whom 

 I bought it, the English name usually applied to fishes of the 

 family Sparidae. Melliss mentions a fish known as the bream at 

 St. Helena, but he saw no specimens ; it does not seem to be 

 caught very often. 



I have named the species in honour of the Governor of 

 St. Helena, Lieut. -Colonel Gallwey. 



Sargtts capensis. 



Sargus capensis Smith. 111. Zool. S. Africa, Fishes, pi. 23. fig. 2 ; 

 Giinther, B. M. Cat. Fishes, i. p. 442 ; Melliss. 

 Old Wife. Melliss. 



