132 DR. F. WOOD JONES ON THE [ Feb. 16, 
“4, Hemulon flavolineatum.—Ground-colour changing from 
pale yellow to deep bronze, with numerous undulating stripes of a 
blue of varying intensity. Two blackish longitudinal stripes, the 
lower ending in a spot at the base of the caudal fin, suddenly 
appeared and disappeared. Similarly, a few irregular broad 
blackish cross-bars could be turned on and off.” 
Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, F.Z.S., read extracts from a letter 
he had received from Dr. Einar Lonnberg, C.M.Z.8., on the 
hunting of the Sea-Elephant on South Georgia, and called attention 
to the necessity of steps being taken to prevent its extermination. 
The following papers were read :-— 
1. The Fauna of the Cocos-Keeling Atoli, collected by 
F. Wood Jones. By F. Woop Jones, B.Se., F.Z.S., 
with the assistance of other Authors. 
[Received December 3, 1908. | 
(Text-figures 7-9.) 
The fauna of the Cocos-Keeling group has been several times: 
investigated, but it has never been thoroughly worked out. The 
species enumerated in the following lists were collected during a 
stay of fifteen months in 1905 and 1906, and the collection, of 
most orders, may fairly be considered as complete. 
Darwin visited the group in 1836 and stayed for only ten days, 
from April the 2nd to the 12th. Wallace in his ‘Island Lite” 
quotes Darwin’s list of the fauna (p. 275). 
Dr. H. O. Forbes visited the islands in 1879, arriving on 
January 18th, and staying till February 9th, and he amplified 
considerably the list made by Darwin; unfortunately his 
collections were lost in returning to Java, and so the additional 
species that he observed have not been specifically recorded (eae 
Naturalist’s Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago,’ 1885). 
On the 20th of August 1885, Mr. W. E. Birch, on behalf of 
the Straits Government, landed and made inquiries about the 
islands and their inhabitants; with him, as naturalist, went the 
Rev. E. C. Spicer. The expedition visited most of the islets, and 
remained for eight days in the atoll, but in the report (Straits 
Blue Book 1885) no light is thrown on the condition of the 
fauna. 
In succeeding Blue Books are scattered notes, made by the 
Commissioners, on some of the most striking features of the atoll 
fauna, but most of this information is mere interpretation of local 
legend, and is of no value. 
Dr. H, B. Guppy came to the islands in 1888, and has written 
