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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 oecur in the trae vieidis. If considered worthy of a ñame, 

 it may therefore bear the appellation poephyeaceits. 



Of Batracliia, 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, 

 Glyphisodoít, and Mue^na, being extraordinarily developed. Of 

 Mueíena. 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 Poissons, in the more recent ela- 

 bórate essays by Dr. Bleeker, ñor 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 the young of which species is P. fuscatus, nobis, J. A. $• 

 XXVII, 27l.f 



A considerable number of Crustácea, Mollusca, and Radiata have 

 likewise been received from Port Blair ; bufe 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 Bev. H. Baker, Junr., of Mundakyam, Alipi, S. Malabar. 



A dozen skins of the Spiny Dormouse (Platacanthomts lasiu- 

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

 spinulostjs, nobis (J. A. S. XXIII, 734), identical with Punjáb spe- 

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

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



* Several more have since come to hand. 



f Salarias olivaceus, XXVII, p. 271, is identical with S. uneatfs, C. V. ; 

 Gobius breviceps is the young of Ge. alboptjnctatijs, C, V. ; Apogon 5-vittattis, 

 p. 272, is the young of G-lyphisodon eahti, C. V. ; Serranus lanceolatus, C. Y., is 

 the young of S. coioides, (E. H.), v. S. suillus, Ó. V.*; Gerres poeta, C. Y. = 

 Chanda setifer, (B. H.), ergo G-. setiper, though the ñame better applies to G-. 

 filamentosa, Ó. Y., which I have also obtained ; Polotus niüdus = Mesopeion 

 gutgutea, (B. H.) C. Y., though the generic ñame Polotus may stand ; and 

 Panchax cyanopthalma, p. 288, is the unnamed species figured in As. Ues. 

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

 I liave since long kept this spe(;ie3 in an aquarium, and it is less of a surface fish 

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



