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taken in large numbers, dried, and fent up the country for 

 fale. 



A SINGULAR apodal fifli found near Dacca is about three 

 feet long, head fmall, and much deprefled ; back greatly elevated, 

 near the lower part a lingle fin of five rays, ventral begins not 

 remote from the mouth, unites with that of the tail, which 

 ends rounded ; color a yellowifli white, dark on the back. 



The genus of Silurus is extremely numerous ; among them 

 are fome undefcribed, and very curious. I muft acknowlege 

 my obligations to Nathaniel Middleton^ Efq. for permitting me 

 to have copies made from his numerous colledion ; many are 

 as yet not afcertained. 



Among the known fpecies are feveral curious Lepturi, one 

 of the charadlers of which is the tail conlii\ing of a long briftle. 

 Some Ophidiums, among them is the Opbidium aculeatum^ Gm* 

 Linn. iii. p. 1174. Blocb. v. p. 58. tab. clix. 



There is a Shark taken in the gulph of Bengal of a new 

 kind, with a fharp and flender nofe. I conclude with another 

 Shark, which is to me a new difcovery in the Indian ocean ; the 

 Squalis PriJiiS) yet Pliny was not unacquainted with ir, who 

 calls it, Maximum animal in Indico Mari. It was reprefented 

 to him as of the length of two hundred cubits ; the fad; is, it 

 does not exceed that of fifteen feet. 

 Paper. The produ6lions of the fociety are printed at Calcutta, and 



on paper the manufacture of the country. I will not be pofitive 

 that they are printed on that, made from the Crotolaria jtmcea, 

 'Trew's Ehret. tab. 47. mentioned in Phil. Trans. Ixiv. p. 99. 

 v.'hich is fown before the rains begin, and gathered in Decern- 



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