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SEA FISHES AT MOMBASA 
Scientific Name 
Popular Name 
Swahili 
Native Name 
Max. 
Weight 
Season i 
1 
j Fam. Synanceidae 
Synanceia verrucosa . 
Boatcho 
Very 
rare 
Fam. Platycephalidae 
Platycephalus tentaculatus 
Fam. Dactylopteridse 
Flying 
Vumbana 
5 lb. 
Annual 
gurnards 
Dactylopterus orientalis 
Order Plectognathi 
! Fam. Balistidae . 
| Monacanthus pardalis 
Comb-gilled 
fishes 
File fishes 
Schareefu 
2 „ 
S.W. M. 
pembe 
„ oblongus 
Schareefu 
2 „ 
N.E. M. 
: Aluteres scriptus 
,, 
2 „ 
N.E. M. 
Batistes erythrodon 
Kete 
1 „ 
N.E. M. 
[ ,, undulatus 
Kilanda 
2 „ 
N.E. M. 
| „ aculeatus 
99 
2 „ 
N.E. M. 
j „ mitis 
Tundui 
2 „ 
N.E. M. 
! Fam. Ostraciontidse . 
| Ostracion punctatus 
Coffer fishes 
Engombi ya 
Annual 
maji 
j „ fornasini 
Omeego 
Annual 
„ cubicus 
Engombi ya 
Annual 
maji 
Fam. Tetrodontidae . 
Tropidichthys valentin 
Order Heterosomata . 
Fam. Bothidae . 
Globe fishes 
Weiyo 
1 „ 
Annual 
Platophrys pantherinus 
Weiyo 
1 » 
Annual 
i N.E. M.=North-east Monsoon, i.e. Dec/to March. 
S.W. M.= South-west Monsoon, i.e. April to October. 
Annual =Present throughout the year. 
A LIST OF BUTTERFLIES COLLECTED DURING THE 
LAST TEN YEARS IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA 
By Rev. K. St. Aubyn Rogers, F.E.S. 
Beprinted from ‘ The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,’ 
2nd Series, Vol , XXIV. 
The knowledge of the butterfly fauna of Tropical Africa 
has been extending with great rapidity during the last few 
years. Many papers have been published on collections made 
in the country, so that I have not found it possible to collate 
