14 STMBRANCniD.'E. 



Amphipnou3 cuchia, Midler, in Abhandl. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1839, 



p. 1>44 ; Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 338 ; Kaup, Apod. p. 120. 

 rneuinabranclius sh'iatus, M' Clell. Cale. jmirn. Nat. Hist. v. pp. 192, 



219, pi. 13. 



leprosus, M'Clcll. I. c. pp. 195, 219. 



albiuus, M' Clell. I. c. pp. 196, 219. __ 



Anatomy: Taylor in Gleanings of Science, ii. p. 173, and Edinh. 



Journ. Sc. v. 1831, p. 33 ; Hyrtt, DenJcschr. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1858, 



xiv. c. tab. 



Blackish or whitish, with or without niimcrous dark spots. 

 Ycrt. 106/G5. 



Bengal. 

 a, h, c. Several adult and half-grown specimens. Calcutta. 



d. Adult. ChiUian wallah. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



e, f, g. Adult. India. 



h. Adult: skeleton. Calcutta. 



Second Group. SYMBKAl^CHINA. 



2. MONOPTERUS. 



Monopterus, Laccp. 

 Fluta, Bl. Schn. p. 565. 

 Opliicardia, McClelland. 

 Apterigia, Basilewskij. 



Body naked. Three branchial arches with the branchial laminae 

 rudimentary, and with moderately wide slits between them. No 

 accessory breathing-sac. Gill-membrane nearly entirely grown to 

 the isthmus. Palatine teeth small, in a narrow band. 



East Indies to Jai)an and Northern China. 



1. Monopterus javanensis. 



Mm-aena alba, Zuiew, Nov. Act. Ac. Sc. Petropol. vii. 1793, p. 299, 



tab. 7. fig. 2. 

 Monopterus javanensis, Lacep. ii. p. 139; Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiii. 



M. 0. Java, p. 22 ; or xxv. Srjmhr. p. 59 ; or Atl. Jchtlujol. Miir. 



p. 118, pi. 47. fig. 1. 

 Unibrancliapertura Ijevis, Lacep. v. p. 658, pi. 17. fig. 3. 

 Monopterus javauicus, Shaw, Zool. iv. p. 33; Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 339, 



pi. 5. figs. 6-8 (head) ; Kavp, Apod. p. 123, pi. 5. figs. 6-8. 

 Synbranclius em-ychasma, Bleek. Terh. Bat. Gen. xxv. 3Iur. p. 60. 

 Ophicardia pbayriana, 31^ Clell. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. p. 191, 218, 



pi. 12. fig. 1. 

 Sj-nbranchus Ifevis, M^ Clell. I. c. p. 230. 



grammicus, Cant. Ann. 4' May. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 30. 



Monopterus liBvis, Richards. Toy. Sidph. Ichth. p. 116. 



• cinereus, Richards. I. c. p. 117, pi. 52. figs. 1-6 (not synon.) ; 



and Ichth. Chin. p. 315. 

 Monopterus? vel Synbranchus? xanthog-nathus, Richards. I. c. p. 118, 



pi. 52. fig. 7. 

 Monopterus marmoratus, Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 315. 

 Monopterus ? helvolus, Richards. I. c. p. 310. 



