440 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Genus Rhynchobdella Schneider. 



39. Rhynchobdella aculeata (Bloch). 



No. 8050a, C. M, A small specimen, six inches in length, taken at 

 Kandy. 



Family OPHIOCEPHALID.'E. 



Genus Ophiocephalus Bloch. 



40. Ophiocephalus striatus Bloch. 



No. 8o57a-c, C. M. Five specimens from the Mahaweli River at 

 Kandy. 



41. Ophiocephalus punctatus Bloch. 



No. 8058a-/, C. M. Several small specimens from Kandy. 



Family ANABANTID.E. 

 Genus Anabas Cuvier. 



42. Anabas scandens (Daldorff). 



Several specimens of this "climbing perch" were collected in the 

 river at Colombo. They show considerable variation in the height 

 of the body, and particularly in the extent to which the spines of the 

 subopercle are produced backwards. 



Family TRICHIURID^. 

 Genus Trichiurus Linnaeus. 



43. Trichiurus haumela (Forskal). 



Two specimens were taken at Colombo. 



Family SCOMBRI D^. 

 Genus Scomber Linnaeus. 



44. Scomber japonicus Houttuyn. 

 Seen in Colombo, but not taken. 



Genus Rastrelliger Jordan & Starks. 



45. RastreUiger kanagurta (Cuvier). 



No. 8060C-&, C. M. Three specimens identical with those described 

 from Fiji by Jordan & Dickerson {Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXXIV, 

 1908, p. 609) as Rastrelliger brachysomus. Specimens from the Philip- 



