250 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 



European sportsmen, some of Avhom have written glowing accounts 

 of the great bags to be made. I regret I cannot speak of it at first 

 hand, but I am sufficiently well acquainted with Lates calcarifer to 

 recommend the pursuit of him to any one desiring to get rid of 

 superfluous fishing tackle. 



It has been suggested to me that since the rainbow trout has now 

 done his duty in the shape of perpetuating his species in Ceylon, 

 and seems likely to continue doing so, he should be considered one 

 of our fresh-water fish, and that any lecture or paper on this subject 

 that ignored him would be incomplete. Well, I am very sorry if 

 this is so, but in any case I have omitited quite a large number 

 of other important species, so our lively little friends at Nuwara 

 Eliya and the Hortons need not take offence ;' they are not the only 

 uninvited guests. 



Possibly at some future date the benevolent Council of this 

 Society will invite me again to discourse on the subject of Ceylon 

 fresh-water fishes, and then the speckled beauties shall have half an 

 hour all to themselves. 



