316 sci^ariD^. 



c. AdiUt: stuiFed. 



d. Three feet long : stuffed. Sea of Pinang. 



e. Three feet long : stuffed. Calcutta. From Mr, E. Blyth's Col- 



lection. 



/. Half-grown : skin. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's 

 Collection. 



g^ h. Young : skins. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's Col- 

 lection. 



3. Collichthys pama. 



Bola pama, JBuch. Sam. Gmitj. Fishes, pp. 79, 368. pi. 32. f. 26. 

 Scisena pama, Guv. 8f Val. v. p. 55. pi. 101 ; Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. 

 XXV. p. 92. 



I>- 10 1 7^^. A. 4. L. lat. 70. Vert. 24. Csec. pylor. 9. 



I 40-43 7 



The height of the body is 5-5^ in the total length, the length of 

 the head 4|— 4| ; the diameter of the eye is one-eighth of the latter, 

 or one-half the length of the snout ; the upper maxillary reaches to 

 behind the posterior margin of the orbit. CaudaHs elongate, pointed. 

 Operndar region with two skinny lobes. 



Bay of Bengal, entering rivers. 



a. Adult. Calcutta. Presented by G. R. Watcrhouse, Esq. 



h. Half-grown. Calcutta. Presented by G. R. Waterhouse, Esq. 



c. Adult : stuffed : not good state. Bay of Bengal. From the Col- 



lection of the Zoological Society. 



d, e. Adult : stuffed. India. 



f-h. Young, India. Presented by G. R. Waterhouse, Esq. 

 i. Adult : stuffed : not good state. East Indies. From the Col- 

 lection of the East India Company. 



12. NEBRIS. 

 Nebris, Cuv. 8f Val. v. p. 149. 



Body oblong ; muzzle with the lower jaw prominent ; eye small. 

 Two dorsals, the first with eight feeble spines ; the anal with two 

 thin spines. All the teeth villiform. Praeoperculum with a scaleless, 

 striated membrane behind. Scales small. Air-bladder with two 

 very long horns. Pseudobranchiae ? * 



Surinam. 



1. Nebris microps. 



Cuv. 8f Vol. v. p. 149. pi. 112. 



D. 8 I ^. A. |-. L. lat. 85. L. ti-ansv. 30. 



The height of the body is 4| in the total length, the length of the 

 head four times ; the diameter of the eye is one-tenth of the latter. 

 The snout is obtuse, not very short, with the lower jaw projecting 



* We may infer, from the other Scianidce which arc tlie closest allied to Nebris, 

 that the ))seudobranchiai? are absent. 



