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its upper and posterior portions were united over the gills to the side for a more than usual 
extent : the posterior jointed part is marked with a bluish spot, and its margin is tipped 
with reddish yellow. The scales are greenish and gold ; and the body is marked with 
bluish transverse bands. Its length from the snout to the root of the caudal fin was two 
inches; from the root of the caudal fin to the tip of its filament, one inch and three 
quarters ; the depth of the fish three quarters of an inch. It possessed an air-bladder, 
and had two (?) coeca.” — C. Mr. Lay describes the colours differently, perhaps from a 
dead specimen: 44 blackish brown, with transverse bands of dilute black: gill-lid with 
a black spot, margin red : tail brown, joints of the rays black.” — L. 
A specimen of a species of Salarias, Cuv.?, “was found in a dead shell without water, 
where, from the state of the tide, it must have been dry for three or four hours. It was, 
however, quite lively, and jumped about. Even after it was brought on board, it 
frequently leaped out of the basin in which it was kept in water, on being touched or 
disturbed” — C.; an activity which strongly recalls that of a probably allied species, the 
Sal. saliens, Cuv., described by Lacepede after Commerson. Of a fish constituting a 
new species of a genus not far removed from the preceding, Eleotris, Cuv., Mr. Collie 
has preserved a sketch, and notes, which will hereafter be referred to. 
Of the Labroid family several fishes were observed. One of these was a true Labrus, 
Cuv.; six were referable to the genus Julis, Cuv.; and one to Gomphosus, Lacep. Draw- 
ings of two of the Julides were preserved ; both of these appear to be new, and we have 
accordingly described them as the Julis lutescens, and the Julis poecila. Of the other 
Julides, one is described as having the “general ground-colour green; a black stripe 
passes along the back, with cross bands of black down to the lateral line, which is a light 
crimson stripe ; broad stripes of red, and narrower of green, converge irregularly to the 
orbit; spines of the dorsal fin eight”— C.: this may perhaps be identical with the Sparus 
Hardwicke of Mr. J. W. Bennett’s Fishes of Ceylon: the second has the “body above 
dark olive, with a few irregular bands of apple-green ; the dark olive is succeeded, in 
passing downwards towards the belly, by yellowish green; beneath, cinereous; ventral 
fins, greenish gold ; dorsal fin, dark and yellowish green, with eight spines; the iris is 
greenish, margined with reddish gold” — C.: the third species is marked with “ longitu- 
dinal bands of green and purple ; the dorsal and anal fins are banded first with a purple, 
then an orange, and then two crimson bands, a bluish line separating each band-; the 
caudal fin is slightly rounded, with a reddish band parallel to and near the hinder margin, 
with others proceeding from it and going irregularly forwards to the base” — C.: the 
fourth Julis? has the general characters and anatomy of the Labridce, and is without scales 
on the head; but it is “a long rounded fish, and has fine teeth paved behind the incisors ; 
the dorsal fin is uniform, beginning a little posterior to the pectorals, which are on the 
same vertical plane with the ventrals ; the anal fin is uniform ; the caudal rounded ; the 
body is dark olive green above, with lighter greenish spots, and greenish-rufous beneath, 
with whey-white squares ; the lower part of the head is zigzagged white and rufous ; 
and the irides are reddish golden: the teeth of the lower jaw are unequal” — C. The 
Gomphosus is an elegant and apparently a new species: “the lower part of the snout, 
