14 SYMBRANCHID^, 



Amphipnous cuchia, Miiller, in Ahhandl. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1839, 



p. 244 ; Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 338 ; Kaup, Apod. p. 120. 

 Pneumabranchus striatus, iJf ' Clell. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. pp. 192, 



219, pi. 13. 



leprosus, M' Clell. I. c. pp. 196, 219. 



albinus, M' Clell. I.e. pp. 196, 219. 



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



Journ. Sc. v. 1831, p. 33 ; Hyrtt, Denkschr. Ak. Wiss. W^en, 1858, 



xiv. c. tab. 



Blackish or wHtish, with or without numerous dark spots. 

 Yert. 106/65. 

 Bengal. 



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



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



e, f, g. Adult. India. 



h. Adult: skeleton. Calcutta. 



Second Group. SYMBRANCHINA. 



2.' MONOPTERUS. 



Monopterus, Lac&p. 

 Fluta, Bl. Schn. p. 565. 

 Ophicardia, M'Clelland. 

 Apterigia, Bnsiloivsky. 



Body naked. Three branchial arches with the branchial laminjc 

 rudimentary, and with moderately wide slits between them. No 

 accessorj breathing-sac GiU-membrane nearly entirely grown to 

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



East Indies to Japan and Northern China. 



1. Monopterus javanensis. 



Mursena alba, Zuiew, Nov. Act. Ac. Sc. Petropol. vii. 1793, p. 299, 



tab. 7. fig. 2. 

 Monopterus javanensis, I<ic^p ii. p. 139 ; Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiii. 



M. O. Java, p. 22 ; or xxv. Symhr. p. 69 ; or Atl. Ichthyol, Mtir. 



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

 Unibrancnapertura laevis, Lacep. v. p. 658, pi. 17. fig. 3. 

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



pi. 5. figs. 6-8 (head) ; Kaup, Apod. p. 123, pi. 5. fig». 6 8. 

 Synbranchus emychasma, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxv. Mtir. p. 60. 

 Ophicardia phayriana, M' Clell. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. p. 191, 218, 



pi. 12. fig. 1. 

 Synbranchus Isevia, M^ Clell. I. c. p. 230. 



grammiciis, Cant. Ann. Sf May. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 30. 



Monopterus leevis, Richards. Voy. Sulph. Ichth. p. 116. 



cinereus, Richards. I. c. p. 117, pi. 52. figs. 1-6 (not eyn(3ii.) ; 



and Ichth. Chin. p. 315. 

 Monopterus? vel SjTibranchus ? xanthognathus, Richards. I. c. p. 11^. 



pi. 52. fig. 7. 

 Monopterus marmoratu9, Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 316. 

 Monopterus ? helvolus, Richards. I. c. p. 316. 



