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other. In this race there is usually no lateral streak, and at most I 

 have only seen it obscurely indicated ; but there is a fine porphyra- 

 ceous lustre on the grass-green scales of the head and body, which 

 does not occur in the true vieidis. If considered worthy of a name, 

 it may therefore bear the appellation poephybaceus. 



Of BatracJiia, I cannot learn that any species has yet been ob- 

 served at Port Blair. 



The collection of fishes is so large and important that I have made 

 it the subject of a special report. As many as 106 osseous species 

 have already been received from Port Blair ;* the genera Salaeias, 

 Gltphisodo^t, and MuejejN'a, being extraordinarily developed. Of 

 Mukjxa alone, I make out sixteen species already received ! A con- 

 siderable proportion of the species appear to be quite new, being de- 

 scribed neither in the Histoire des Boissons, in the more recent ela- 

 borate essays by Dr. Bleeker, nor by Sir J. Richardson and other 

 authorities. No fresh-water species has been received ; but a few 

 mud-skippers, as the Peeiopthalmtjs papilio, (Bloch), — a fine 

 series, and tbe young of which species is B. fuscatus, nobis, J. A. S- 

 XXVII, 271.t 



A considerable number of Crustacea, Mollusca, and Badiata have 

 likewise been received from Port Blair ; but though I have mostly 

 determined the genera and species, I have not at present the leisure to 

 draw up a report on them. 



4. The Rev. H. Baker, Junr., of Mundakyam, Alipi, S. Malabar. 



A dozen skins of the Spiny Dormouse (Platacanthomys lasiu- 

 EUS, nobis, J. A. S. XXVIII, 289), five skins of Mus (Leggada) 

 spinulosus, nobis (J. A. S. XXIII, 734), identical with Punjab spe- 

 cimens, — one of a small Mouse affined to, if not identical with, M. 

 axbidiyexteis, nobis, of L. Bengal, but of which it is desirable to 



* Several more have since come to hand. 



t Salarias olivafieus, XXVII, p. 271, is identical with S, LINEATUS, C. V. ; 

 Golius breviceps is the young of G. albopunctatus, C, V. ; Apogon 5-vittatns, 

 p. 272, is the young of Gtlyphisodon eahti, C. V. ; Serranus lanoeolatus, C. V., is 

 the young of S. coioides, (B. H.), v. S. suillas, C. V. ; Gerres poetce, C. V. = 

 Chanda setifer, (B. H.), ergo G-. setipeb, though the name better applies to GL 

 TiLAirENTOSA, C. V., which I have also obtained ; Polotus nitidus = Mesopbion- 

 gtjtgutea, (B. H.) C. V., though the generic name Polottjs may stand ; and 

 Panchax cyanopthaxma, p. 288, is the unnamed species figured in As. Res. 

 XIX, pi. , f. , but in the living fish the azure eye is much less noticeable. 

 I have since long kept this species in an aquarium, and it is less of a surface fish 

 in its habits than the P. Buchanani, 0. V. 



