60 Records of the Indian Museum. 
Teleostet. 
Clupea kunzei. 
Chatoessus nasus. 
Engraulis commersonianus 
(young only). 
Saurida tumbil. 
Arius jatius. 
Arius nella. 
Pristipoma maculatum. 
Therapon theraps. 
Upeneoides vittatus. 
Sciaena (species not yet deter- 
' mined). 
Sciaena carutta. 
Caranx kurra. 
Equula lineolata. 
»,  insidiatrix. 
Chorinemus lysan. 
Lactarius delicatulus. 
Seriola nigrofasciata. 
Scomber microlepidotus. 
Cybium guttatum. 
Elacate nigra. 
Sillago sihama. 
Sphyraena obtusuta (also 
species not yet identified). 
Mugil jerdoni. 
Synaptura commersoniana.. 
Plagusia bilineata. 
[Vor VII, 
a 
melampygus. ie marmorata. 
atropus. Triacanthus brevirostris. 
sj02 Dippos: Tetrodon lunaris. 
Equula ruconius. 
+) 
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This list was considerably extended as a result of further 
observations in March (1909) when fishing, both with the seine-nets 
in the masula boats and with the drift-nets of the catamarans, was 
carried on. The pomfrets (both Stromateus cinereus and S. niger) 
were present in large numbers. On this occasion these fish were 
captured in the drift-nets as the weather was too rough for the 
masula boats. In this net there were also present Cybium gutta- 
tum, Trygon gerrardt and T. imbricata, Chiloxyllium griseum, 
Dussumieria acutus and species of Minous and Trichiurus. 
The sea-snake Distiva robusta was represented by a specimen 
174°5 cms. (68 inches) in length. Tvrygon alcockii, a new species 
of sting-ray, was captured in a seine-net at Puri at this time. 
The ‘‘ Golden Crown ’’ rarely trawled in muddy ground in 
this area, though occasionally in deeper water mud was met with; 
but this mud was invariably of a harder consistency than that in 
Area I. Off the Black Pagoda (Konarak) there is a reef composed 
of a recent conglomerate of sand and decomposed shells, and the 
trawl net was on one occasion lost on this reef. Off the Devi river 
turtles were unusually abundant, no less than six being taken in 
one haul of the trawl. The forms represented were Thalassochelvs 
caretta and Chelone imbricata. 
Invertebrates were not uncommon; of the edible species the 
‘‘ prawns ”’ (Peneidae) predominated. The largest hauls made by 
the ‘‘ Golden Crown ’’ were made in this area and in Area IV. 
In September 1909 no less than 2? tons weight of prawns were 
caught in seven days fishing. Of other Crustacea probably Calappa 
lophos is the commonest. 
Mollusca are more abundant than on the muddy grounds 
off the Sunderbuns. A spiny species of Murex (M. tenutspina), 
several species of Chama and Dolium are typical. Astropecten and 
