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Show 650 MR. F. DAY ON THE RANGE OF APOGON ELLIOTI. [May 17, Allied to M. vindex, Smith, from S. Africa, and M. prodigiosa, Gerst., from E. Africa. Male. Head, antennae, prothorax, and legs reddish, a very narrow bright red line round the eyes, and the mouth also shading into bright red ; mesothorax black above, with three carinae in front, and a broad raised ridge behind; scutellum deeply incised ; metathorax oval, truncated behind, and clothed with long hair. Pectus and abdomen clothed with a coppery green pile ; the middle of the pectus with a few long grey hairs. Wings deep purple or violet, with blue and green reflections. Female. Similar, but with the red colouring less marked, especially on the head and prothorax. SPHEGIDJE. 4. P E L O P C K U S JSGYPTIUS. Sphex aigyptiee, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 569, no. 4 (1758). Sphex spirifex, Linn. loc. cit. p. 570. no. 8. A common species in South Europe, and apparently spread over nearly the whole of Africa. 6. O n the Range of Apogon ellioti. By F R A N C I S D A Y , F.Z.S. [Received April 29, 1881.] Apogon nigripinnis, Gunther, Catal. i. 1859, p. 235 ; Playfair, Fish. Zanzibar, 1866, p. 20 (not Cuv. & Val. ii. p. 152). A. ellioti, Day, Fishes of India, part. i. 1875, p. 63, pi. xvii. fig. 1. A. arafura?, n. sp., Gunther, Shore Fishes of'Challenger,' 1880, p. 38, pi. xvi. fig. c. Among the littoral forms of fishes collected by the ' Challenger' are some which appear to me to have a much wider range than is adverted to in the late interesting contribution to our ichthyological knowledge. Having been in London last week, I took the opportunity of re-examining the forms in the national Museum recorded as A. nigripinnis, and likewise the fine single example of A. arafura? brought home by the Expedition from the Arafura Sea. I would premise that, having had the opportunity of comparing the example at the Jardin des Plantes, said to be the type of A. nigripinnis, C. V., with the one I figured in the ** Fishes of India,' pi. xvi. fig. 6, I feel confident of their being identical. I also think that there can exist but little reasonable doubt that most of the specimens named A. nigripinnis in the British Museum are vomit* examples of A. ellioti. They were received from Zanzibar, the East Indies, and China. When I published the 'Fishes of India,' I only possessed two examples from India. Since that time, owing to the* kindness of Dr. |