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height of the body is contained seven times and a half in the total length, and the 
length of the head four times and a half in the same. Head elongate, nearly twice as 
long as high, with the snout somewhat prominent and longer than the diameter of the 
eye. Lower jaw longest. Eyes close together, and a quarter of the length of the 
head. No spine at the angle of the prseoperculum. Outer series of teeth slightly 
enlarged, with a small canine at each side of the lower jaw. Each dorsal spine is pro- 
duced into a short filament ; the last dorsal and anal rays are also somewhat produced. 
The caudal is acutely rounded. 
Colour of the body pearly, with four broad brown cross bands, the anterior and pos- 
terior edges of which are darker : the first is below the five anterior dorsal spines ; the 
second corresponds to the interspace between the dorsal fins; the third is below the 
end of the soft dorsal ; and the fourth is across the caudal. There is a rudimentary 
band in the interspaces between each pair, the first being across the neck. A straight 
silvery blue band from the lower part of the maxillary to the upper angle of the oper- 
culum, and a faint blue line (disappearing after death) from the lower anterior margin 
of the eye to the middle of the intermaxillary. The first dorsal is brownish, with some 
white marks and a large black white-edged ocellus on the summit. The second dorsal 
is yellowish white, with a blackish band along the middle and two round black spots on 
its base. The anal is shaded with yellow, white, and pale brown, with a dark-brown 
margin. 
Length 3^ inches. 
Zanzibar. 
We have named this species after Swinburne Ward, Esq., Her Majesty’s Civil Com- 
missioner for the Seychelles. 
250. Eleotris fusca. [559, 642.] 
Poecilia fusca, Bl. Schn. p. 453. 
Cheilodipterus culius, Buck. Ham. Fish. Ganges, p. 55, pi. 5. f. 16. 
Eleotris nigra, Quoy 0$ Gaim. Voy. Uran. p. 259, pi. 60. f. 2 ; Cuv. Val. xii. p. 233. 
mauritianus, Benn. Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. i. p. 166. 
Eleotris fusca, Giinth. Fish. iii. p. 125. 
Fresh water of Seychelles and Johanna. Pangani River, east coast of Africa. Mada- 
gascar, Mauritius, and thence to Polynesia. 
251. Eleotris soaresi, sp. n. Plate IX. fig. 4. [405.] 
D. 6 | A. 1 L. lat. 62-63. 
Very closely allied to E. fusca and to E. melanosoma ; differing from the former in 
having the cheeks and lower half of the gill-apparatus entirely naked ; it has a broader 
snout and a more prominent head ; from the latter it is distinguished by smaller scales. 
