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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 Scorpcena miles, Bennett, or Pterois miles, 
Griinther 1 , of which Bennett has given a figure 2 , hut 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 3 , 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 4 , that of nineteen drawings 
1 The fish from the Sea of Pi- of Ceylon, Plate xxviii. 
nang, described by Dr. Cantor 4 In extenuation of the little 
with this name (Catal. Mai. Fish, that is known of the fresh-water 
p. 42), is again different, and be- fishes , of Ceylon, it may be ob- 
longs to a third species. served that very few of them are 
2 Fishes of Ceylon, PI. ix. used at table by Europeans, and 
3 This is the fish figured by there is therefore no stimulus on 
Bennett as Sparus pepo. Fishes the part of the natives to catch 
