Bibliographical Notice, 3G5 



margin of eye; no barbels. Scales 35-38 ^, 5^ or G 

 between lateral line and root of ventral. Dorsal II 14-15, 

 originating at a point equidistant from tip of snout and base 

 of caudal; anterior branched rays as long as the head. 

 Anal II 14-15. Pectoral nearly as long as the head, ex- 

 tending to the root of the ventral. Ventral 8-rayed, a little 

 shorter than the pectoral, extending a little beyond the origin 

 of anal. Caudal deeply forked. Caudal peduncle longer 

 than deep. Olivaceous above, silvery below; lower parts of 

 abdomen blackish ; vertical fins dusky, the dorsal and caudal 

 with some dark spots on the rays, the anal with a blackish 

 edge; ventral blackish, with the outermost ray white. 



Four specimens, 62 to 78 mm. in total length, from tlie 

 Yaniasabu River, Lake Biwa. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. — Palceontologia Inclica. 

 Series XV. Himalayan Fossils. Vol. IV. The Fauna of the Spiti 

 Shales. By Dr. Victor Uhlig, Professor of Geology in the 

 University of Vienna. 132 pages, 18 plates, and lU text-cuts. 

 Polio. 1904. GeoL Surv. Office, Calcutta ; Kegan Paul & Co., 

 London ; and Priedliiuder, Berlin. 



The important fossiliferous strata which constitute the basis of this 

 elaborate and well-illustrated Monograph by Dr. Victor Uhlig, of 

 Vienna, are met with in limited areas among the much denuded 

 rocks of the Central Himalaya, especially in the Spiti Valley, 

 latitude N. 32° 5', longitude E. 78° 15', and lat. N. 28° 51', long. 

 E. 77° 36'. The beds consist of dark grey and black shales, 300 feet 

 thick, lying over a limestone and under a sandstone. The former 

 (part of the Lower Gondwana system) is referred to the Jurassic 

 epoch, and the latter or Giusmal {Sandstone (6uO feet thick) belongs 

 to the Upper Gondwana and is referred to the Neocomian. The 

 relative age of the " Spiti Possils" has been the subject of much 

 controversy, and several eminent palaeontologists have assisted the 

 Geological Survey of India in this investigation with both head and 

 hand. 



In the Introduction Dr. Uhlig makes careful mention of the many 

 geologists who have advanced our knowledge, special and general, 

 of the Spiti Fauna through the clouds of douht and difficulties 

 encountered in former days ; and he gratefully thanks his follow- 

 workers and friends in India, Europe, and Britain, by whose help 

 this comprehensive and really valuable memoir has been perfected 

 and published. The talented artists and the friendly translator of 

 his MS. are especially thanked. Indeed everyhody M'ho has been 

 engaged in this good work has to be congratulated on the complete 

 success of their labours. 



