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Show 1867.] THE FISHES OF SEYCHELLES. 867 upper jaw. Forehead straight. Two series of scales on the cheek, with a single one below, the lower praeopercular limb being entirely naked. Caudal with the lobes much produced. Pectorals long, reaching to anal, falciform, with the point rounded. Colour.-General colour of the body dirty green, each scale with a brownish margin. A broad green patch on the head below the eye, continued as a band across the snout, above the upper lip and below the lower one, leaving the lips and an irregular spot on each side of the symphysis of the lower jaw of a dirty fawn-colour ; it is also continued as a patch on the body, between the roots of the pectorals and ventrals, and as a series of spots from the latter to the origin of the anal. Dorsal blue, with vertical yellowish bars on the membranes. Anal bluish green, with a narrow, wavy, yellowish median band. Caudal green, with a broad yellowish band along each lobe. Ventrals with a similar band parallel to the first ray. Length 19 inches. 169. GERRES LINEOLATUS, Gthr. 170. G. ARGYREUS, Forst. Scicena argyrea, Forster. Gerres waigiensis, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Freyc. Zool. p. 292. G. argyreus, Cuv. & Val. vi. p. 478; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 263. The specimens from Seychelles have the second dorsal spine two-thirds of the height of the body. Creole name " Beau temps." Hab. Seychelles ; Mozambique ; Red Sea ; East-Indian archipelago ; Port Jackson. 171. G. POETI, C. & V. PLEURONECTID^E. 172. RHOMBOIDICHTHYS PANTHERINUS, Riipp. 173. PLAGUSIA MARMORATA, Blkr. PHYSOSTOMI. • SILURIDCE. 174. PLOTOSUS ANGUILLARIS, Bl. SCOMBERESOCIDJE. 175. BELONE ANNULATA. Belone annulata, Russell, pl. 175 ; Cuv. & Val. xviii. p. 447, pl. 550; Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 244; Giinth. Fish. vi. p. 240. Hab. Seychelles ; Indian Ocean ; Friendly Islands. 176. HEMIRAMPHUS DUSSUMIERI, C. & V. 177. H. GEORGII, C. & V. |