CHAP. xiv. Other Siluroids. 215 



Genus. MACRONES. 



Macrones seenghala. B. xii., D. |/o, P. 1/9, V. 6, A. 11-12 (~), C. 

 19-21. 



Upper surface of head granulated in ridges. Habitat: The Indus, 

 salt ranges of the Punjab, Jumna, and Ganges, certainly as low as Delhi, 

 also the Deccan, Kristna river to its termination, and Assam. 



M. aor. B. xii., D. i/o, P. 1/9-10, V. 6, A. 12-13 (=*), C. 17. Through- 

 out Sind and India to Burmah. 



The Kors (Assamese name) mentioned by Mr. J. E. Welborne, of 

 Assam, as running within his observation to 60 Ibs., and his hearsay to 

 100 Ibs., and the Poongah (Assamese), seen weighing about 20 Ibs., and 

 both to be caught with live bait in the still deep waters of the Assam 

 rivers, are from his description in the Asian evidently Siluroids, but 

 which of them it is not possible to say without seeing them. 



Mr. Welborne's plan is, in pools of 30 feet deep, if possible, using 

 for preference a | Ib. live bait, and even up to \ lb., with one treble 

 hook beneath the back fin, and one hanging free below the stomach, 

 and an ounce sinker 2 feet from the bait, and the bait about 3 feet from 

 the bottom of the river, to hang the line, taut from the rod top, over the 

 side, and let the boat be carried down the gentle stream from the head 

 to the tail of the pool ; which done, you may work up the edge of the 

 pool and repeat the operation. He has also killed with the spoon. 

 He thought the afternoon fishing the best. (Asian, 22nd July, and 

 2nd September, 1879). 



I have given his method because he says he has been successful 

 with it, and I do not profess to know the fish or the rivers he writes of. 

 But it would seem to me that the bait must hang very near the boat, 

 which, to a fish below, must be a great dark object looming against the 

 light, and not exactly attractive, an objection easily obviated by the use 

 of a large float or bung, or a string of two or three bottle corks, which 

 would equally suspend the weighted line and bait, and also allow of its 

 being kept well free of the boat some 20 or 30 yards down stream. 

 Also the Jardine live bait tackle might be substituted with advantage. 

 You will find it in the Index. 



