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PREFACE. 



Service, for his valuable assistance in carrying this work through the Press : and to 

 Dr. Bleeker, for having courteously examined various specimens of fish which I for- 

 warded to him, and been so good as to give me his opinion upon them. 



The following new species, described in this work, have been placed in the British 

 Museum — Caranx melanostetlios : Nandus Mcdabaricus : Mugil poicilus : Ophiocephalus 

 diphgramme : Mastacemblus Guntheri: Hypselobagrus armatus : Pseudobagrus chryseus : 

 Hara Mala.ba.rica : Nemaclieihis triangularis : Platacanthus agrensis : Garra Malabarica : 

 Puntius melanampyx: Puntius Benisonii : Puntius parrah: Puntius perlee : Puntius 

 vittatus : Amblypharygnodon Jerdoni : Barilius Bakeri: Paradanio aurolineatus, &c. 

 AVhilst the East Indian Museum has been furnished with six of the foregoing, and also 

 a specimen of the Engvaulis auratus, and upwards of one hundred species which were 

 personally collected in Cochin, but of which I possess duplicate specimens. 



The vignette represents the present state of the flag-staff tower in Cochin, raised 

 on the ruins of the Portuguese Cathedral of Santa Cruz, the memorable spot where the 

 body of the illustrious Don Vasco de Gama, Portuguese Viceroy, High Admiral of the 

 Indies, the discoverer of the Cape route, is believed to have been temporarily interred 

 about December 26th, 1524. 



