202 CEYLON PEARL OYSTER EtEPOitT 



Monacanihus tomentosus (L.). Gulf of Manaar. 



Hippocampus villosus, Gunther. At Station LIV., south of Adam's Bridge. 



Solcnostoma paradoxum, Pall. Gulf of Manaar. 



Opichthys timorensis, Gunther. At Station LIV., south of Adam's Bridge. 



Platycephalus asper, Cuv. and Val. At Station XX., Trincomalee. 



Arnoglossus- spilurus, Gunther. Common. 



Pseudocheilinus hexatcenia, Bleekkr. South of Galle. 



Pegasus volans, Linn. At Aripu Reef. 



Aploactis asjiersa, Temm. and Schleg. South of Adam's Bridge. 



Eryihrichthys leucogrammicus (BleekerI Cheval Paar. 



Apogon eneastigma, Ruppell. At Aripu Reef. 



Apogon septemstriatus, Gunther. At Station XLIV., south-west of Ceylon. 



The classification and nomenclature used by Day have been adhered to for the 

 most part in the following list, with such changes as have been necessitated by the 

 works of Gunther and Alcock. 



PISCES. 



ELASMOBRANCHII. 



CAKCHAKILTXE. 

 Carcharias, sp. 



A foetus, about 14 inches long, which was taken from an unidentified shark, about 

 5 feet in length, caught in the Gulf of Manaar. 



TORPEDINID.E. 

 Narcine timlei (Bl. Schn.) 

 Two specimens, largest about G inches long. Palk Straits. 



TKYGON1D.E. 



Pteroplatea micrura (Bl. Schn.). 

 A small specimen, about 13 inches across the disc. Pearl banks off Aripu. 



MYLIOBATIILE. 



Dicerobatis eregoodoo, Russell. 

 A large female was taken at the south end of the Periya Paar ; the disc was 

 38 inches long and the tail about 13 inches. A foetus' was taken from this fish which 

 is about 12^ inches across the disc; the disc is about 8 inches and the tail about 

 14^ inches long. 



