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the former for the great help and valuable suggestions that he 

 gave to me throughout the preparation of this paper, and to 

 the latter for going through the manuscript with me. Dr. Annan- 

 dale's Monograph ' on the Fish and Fisheries of the Inle Lake has 

 served me as a model in writing up the rtsults of my investiga- 

 tions. The illustrations were executed under my supervision by 

 the artists of the Zoological Survey with their usual skill and I 

 must express my indebtedness to them for this work. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Only a few species of fish have hitherto been recorded from 

 the Manipur Valley and the hills in its immediate vicinity. Day, 

 in his volumes in the Fatina of Briliili India records only three 

 from the Naga Hills, Erdliistes hara, E. elongata and Daitio acqui- 

 pinnalus. vSpecimens of other species have, however, been collected 

 in small numbers from time to time in the streams of these moun- 

 tains. Over half a century ago a small collection was made by 

 Col. H. H. Godwin- Austen, but so far as my knowledge goes no 

 account of it has been published. More recently, in 1910, the 

 Rev. Mr. Pettigrew sent to the Indian Museum a small collection 

 of fish from the hill streams of Northern ilanipur. The species in 

 this collection, as Dr. Annandale informs me, were all obtained in 

 the hill country, probably from the neighbourhood of Ukhrul 

 which is situated at an altitude of 6,000 ft. Two new species 

 found by Mr. Pettigrew, Neinachiltis nianipurensis and Diiino 

 nagancnsis, were described by Dr. B. L. Chaudhuri,'^ while notes on 

 some of the other species are incorporated here. 



The list of the species given below is based on the informa- 

 tion obtained from all these sources and from our own collection, 

 which is of course much the largest. Under the name Naga Hills I 

 include all the country inhabited by Naga tribes and not merely the 

 district to which the name is officially applied. 



LLST OF FISHES OBTAINED FROM MANIPUR AND 

 THE NAGA HILLS. 



LoKTAK Lake. 



Clarias batraclms (Linn.). Lepidoccphalichthys irroraia, sp. 



Cctllichrous bimacitlatus, Bloch. n. 



Macrones bleekeri. Day. Amba^.sis raii'^a (Ham. Buch.). 



La'u'o calbasu (Ham. Buch.). Ophioccphalus harcotirt-butleri, 



labeo pangusia (Ham. Buch.). Annand. 



BarLus sarana caudinmy^i nalus ^ Barbus concJwnius (Ham. 



Blyth. Buch.). 



Rohtes belangeri (C. and V.). Barbus ticto (Ham. Buch.). 



' Annandale, Rec. hid. Mus., Xl\', pp. 33— 64, pis. i — vni (1918). 

 * Chaudhuri, Rec. hid. A/iis., VII, p. 443, pi. xl, figs. 4, 4.11, 4i ;ind pi. .xli, 

 figs. 1, irt. li ; p. 441, pi. xl, (iijs. 1, 1(7, 16 (1912). 



