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head, width of interorbital space 3} times in length of head. 
Upper jaw the longer, the width of the gape of the mouth 2} 
times in the length of the head. Lips slightly fringed. 
The maxillary barbels extend to just beyond the base of 
the pectoral fins, the nasals reach about three-quarters of the way 
to the orbit, the outer mandibular to the base of the pectoral and 
the inner to the gill opening. Teeth in the jaws villiform, palate 
edentulous. 
Dorsal fins as high as body. Bases of adipose and first dorsal 
fins approximately equal, pectoral extending half-way to ventral. 
Pectoral spine flattened, strong, and coarsely serrated inter- 
nally. Skin covering under surface of pectoral and ventral spines 
plicated. 
Colour. —Greyish black all over except ventral thoracic and 
Glyptosteynum saisit, Sp. NOV., x 2. 
abdominal regions which are whitish. Fin membranes white, rays 
and spines black. Caudal fin with black spots. Caudal peduncle 
twice as long as high. 
This species approaches G. pectenopierum, McClelland, a form 
which occurs in the Himalayas, throughout the Punjab, and at 
Kangra, Simla and Darjiling, but differs from it in the head being 
longer than broad, and in the adhesive apparatus being much 
longer than wide. The relative body proportions are also mark- 
edly different. 
III.—Two NEW SPECIES OF Cynoglossus FROM THE SUNDERBUNS. 
While engaged in an enquiry into the fishery resources of the 
Sunderbuns, trawling was tried in several of the creeks. On the 
25th August 1909, when fishing with the shrimp trawl off Morelgan) 
