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Among other recent publications on Siamese ichthyology, special 

 mention should be made of two by Sunder Lai Hora, one appearing 

 under the title "On a Collection of Fish from Siam" (1923b) , the other 

 entitled "Fish of the Tale Sap, Peninsular Siam" (1924a). In the 

 former paper, based entirely on collections made by Dr. Malcom Smith 

 mostly in the Menam Chao Phya near Bangkok, there were described 

 as new Culter siamensis, Barhus smithi (described from Siam many 

 yeai'S earlier by Bleeker under the namfe Pimtius proctosysron) , Glyp- 

 tothorax siamensis, and Mastacerribelus armatus var. favus. In the 

 latter paper, based on collections made by Dr. N. Annandale, new forms 

 described were the fresh-water pipefish Michophis annandalei and the 

 spiny-eel MastaceTnbelus circwmcinctus, together with several brack- 

 ish-water or marine species. Dr. Hora has published also valuable 

 incidental references to or accounts of Siamese fishes in his papers on 

 the fishes of India and Burma, and in 1937 (c) he described a new 

 genus {Platytropius) of Siamese schilbeid catfishes to accommodate 

 Sauvage's Pseudeutropius siamensis. 



A small collection of fishes mostly from Peninsular Siam, made by 

 Dr. H. Bernatzik in 1936 and 1937, was reported on by Dr. F. P. Kou- 

 mans (1937a). The collection, in the Natural History Museum in 

 Basle, Switzerland, contains examples of 37 species, of which one, 

 Barilius hernatziki, from a mountain stream between Trang and 

 Patalung, is described as new and is interesting as being the only spe- 

 cies of Barilius reported from Peninsular Siam, although another 

 species {B. guttatus) is known from Pahang, one of the Federated 

 Malay States. This new species, together with a number of other 

 forms, is stated to have been taken at "Kapa, N. W. Peninsular Siam." 

 There does not appear to be any locality properly so called, and it is 

 believed that the place intended to be mentioned is Takuapa, a small 

 community on the west coast of Peninsular Siam north of Puket. An- 

 other locality erroneously indicated from which fish specimens were 

 obtained is "Lake of Patalung, N. W. Siam." This is obviously in- 

 tended for the inner lake of the Tale Sap, Peninsular Siam; near 

 its head is the Patalung Kiver, with the town of Patalung several miles 

 above its mouth. 



Of special importance among the most recent publications on Sia- 

 mese fishes has been a series of six articles by Henry W. Fowler based 

 on collections made by or for R. M. de Schauensee between 1932 and 

 1936. The articles, appearing in the Proceedings of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, have contained descriptions of many 

 new genera and new species ; and all new forms, as well as many pre- 

 viously known, have been illustrated from original drawings by Fowler. 

 As much of de Schauensee's material came from interior waters, the 

 reports thereon have special value in connection with the present 



