Cuap. X.] THE SCARUS HARID. 325 
the East Indian Seas, and of these the one figured 
above is, perhaps, the most common. 
Another species known to occur on the coasts of Cey- 
lon, is the Scorpena miles, Bennett, or Pterois miles, 
Ginther!, of which Bennett has given a figure’, but it is 
not altogether correct in some particulars. 
In the fishes of Ceylon, however, beauty is not con- 
fined to the brilliancy of their tints. In some, as in the 
Scarus harid, Forsk’, the arrangement of the scales is 
so graceful, and the effect is so heightened by modi- 
fications of colour, as to present the appearance of tes- 
sellation, or mosaic work. 
SCARUS HARID, 
After Bennett, 
Fresh-water Fishes.—Of the fresh-water fish, which 
inhabit the rivers and tanks, so very little has hitherto 
been known to naturalists’, that of nineteen drawings 
1 The fish from the Sea of Pi- 
nang, described by Dr. Cantor 
of Ceylon, Plate xxviii. 
4 In extenuation of the little 
with this name (Catal. Mal. Fish. 
p. 42), is again different, and be- 
longs to a third species. 
2 Fishes of Ceylon, Pl. ix. 
8 This is the fish figured by 
Bennett as Sparus pepo. Fishes 
that is known of the fresh-water 
fishes of Ceylon, it may be ob- 
served that very few of them are 
used at table by Europeans, and 
there is therefore no stimulus on 
the part of the natives to catch 
