X\^I. NOTES ox A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM 



CEYLON WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By David Stare. Jordax asd Edwin Chapin Starks. 



(Plates XLUI-XLV.) 



la Januarv-. 1914- the senior author spent a week at Colombo and 

 Kandy in Ceylon, making collections of fishes. The present paper 

 contains notes on these species, with descriptions of three thought to 

 be new to science. Besides the species here named, numerous sharks, 

 rays, and other large fishes were seen, but the collector was not pre- 

 pared to retain large specimens. At Colombo the shore is sandy, 

 slowly sloping into deep water, a sluggish stream flowing in from the 

 uplands behind; no corals, no rocks. At Mount La\"inia, eight miles 

 to the westward, are small headlands of rock with rock-pools. From 

 these several small species were taken. Near Kandy, in the moun- 

 tains, are the headwaters of the Mahaweli River, a clear stream with 

 some rocky places and occasional deep pools flowing northeastward 

 to TrincomalL From these pools five species were taken with a cast- 

 net by my colleague. Professor Walter Kenrick Fisher. A few fresh- 

 water fishes were taken in the small river which flows through Colombo. 

 The collection is in the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 

 vania, a series of duplicates being retained at Stanford University, 

 California. 



FamHy GALEID^. 



Genus Chahcharixus Blainville. 



I. Chaichaxinas acutus ^Ruppellj. 



No. 8020a, C. M. A single small specimen with the umbilical 

 mark still present. 



Family DASYBATID^. 



Genus PteroplaT/Ea Mailer 8c Henle. 



2. Pteroplataea micrura ''Bloch & Schneider). 

 No. io2ia, C. M. A solitary spf-x.imftn. 



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