1018.] N. Annandale: Fi,h of the InU Lahe. 39 



Mbst of these names are probably dialectic or local, but Day in tliift 

 Fauna of India gives " Nga yan " as one of the Burmese names of 

 Ophiocephalus striatus, " Nga khoo " as that of Clarias batrachus^ 

 " Nga tha-laydoh" as that of Lepidocephalus berdmorei, and " Ngakhon- 

 mah-gyee " as that of Barbus sarana. Nga mywe ("Nga mwey " in 

 Day) is probably a generic name aj)plied to any kind of Mastacembelus ; 

 it means, literally, '' snake fish." Nga shin (" Nga-sheen " in Day, 

 who a,pj)lies it to A)nphipnous cuchia) is i)Tohah\y in the same way a 

 generic name for any kind of eel, while Nga thange-kyebye (" small 

 white fish ") is applied to any small silvery fish used in making dried 

 whitebait. Mr. Browne tells me that Nga taing-tet as applied to 

 Discognathus lamia is a coined name, meaning " the post-chmbing fish " 

 and referring to the pecuUar habits of the species (see p. 45) ; but 

 the name is well understood among the Intha. At He-Ho, where there 

 are no posts for it to climb, it is known as *' stone-climbing fish," Nga 

 hjauk-tet. 



The only name for the true Carp on the Inle Lake and at He-Ho is 

 Nga hpein or Nga pein, but Mr. G. C. B. Sterhng informs me that at 

 Kentung it is called Pa nai, '' which is the usual Shan equivalent for Nga 

 Pein." 



SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION 

 FROM THE INLE LAKE. 



Order APODES. 

 Family CHAUDHURIIDAE, nov. 

 The family may be defined as consisting of — 



Small Apodes with a fan-shaped, practically free caudal fin provided 

 with well-developed rays and supported by a pair of hypural 

 bones ; with pectoral fins ; with minute scales ; with the vent 

 situated a long distance from the head ; with teeth arranged 

 in bands on the jaws only ; with lateral nostrils ; with the gill- 

 openings separate and the integument covering them suppor- 

 ted by few branchiostegal rays ; with all the pharyngeal slits 

 wide ; with four fully developed gill-bearing branchial arches ; 

 with the heart close to the branchial arches ; with an air 

 bladder with the f rentals paired, the ethmoid and vomer 

 distinct and the former separating the maxilla ries in front ! 

 with well-developed zygapophyses on the vertebrae. 



