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Several female specimens of Haplochilus melanostigma were 
obtained which were carrying a mass of egys attached to the ab- 
domen (see pl. vi, fig. 7). The average number of eggs so attached 
is from 30 to 36. ‘These are affixed by a number of slender filamen- 
tous processes given off from a central ligament which protrudes 
from the external genital opening. Eacheggis about a centimetre 
in diameter and the shell, which is quite distinct from the egg 
proper, has on its external surface a number of minute processes 
(see fig. 7a). 
Gobius chilkensis, sp. nov. (Pl. vi, fig. 2.) 
Dri-5— 1-7, P14, Vo 1-4, Ac 6, Co28. 
Length of head 6 times, of caudal fin 4: times, height of 
body 54 times, in total length. Eye-diameter equal in length to 
snout and interorbital space and 34 times in length of head. 
Interorbital space slightly concave. Width of head ? of 
length, height also ? of length. Upper jaw the longer, cleft of 
mouth extending to middle of orbit. No canine teeth. Pre- 
opercle minutely serrated. 
Spines in first dorsal fin variable. Posterior extension of 
2nd dorsal and anal ray very variable, in some instances reaching 
nearly to origin of caudal. Caudal rounded. 
Colour pale yellow, margins of scales black. Dorsal and 
caudal spotted in bands. Pectoral colourless. Ventral sometimes 
colourless, sometimes with black rays. Anal colourless, but mem- 
brane with minute black spots. 
Locality.—Lake Chilka, Gopkuda Island. 
This species comes near G. giuris, but differs in that the lower 
jaw does not project and in that the snout is not elongate. The 
posterior extension of the ventral is also much more marked in 
G. giurvis. There are twelve specimens in the collection and their 
measurement in millimetres from the tip of the snout to the extre- 
mity of the tail is respectively 44, 42, 42, 41, 40, 39, 36, 32, 25, 
2G. 2k ardyrg: 
VI.—SomE FIsH FROM UPPER BURMA. 
Two collections of Burmese fish have recently been added 
to the Indian Museum; one was purchased by Dr. Annandale 
in the market at Mandalay (March 1908), while the other was 
obtained by Mr. J. Coggin Brown of the Geological Survey of 
India at Bhamo, Upper Burma, in January 1909. Some of the 
specimens in the latter collection were obtained from a tank (T), 
others from the Irrawaddy River (R). 
TELEOSTEI. 
Physostomi, 
SILURID. 
Callichrous pabo. Mandalay. 
Macrones cavasius. Mandalay. 
