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APPENDIX II 



Total length 



From snout to cloaca 



Length of head 



Width of head 



Fore limb . 



Hind limb . 



Tail . 



Two specimens were collected by 



Mr. Pratt at Ichang. 



FISHES 



1. Acipenser dabryanus (Dum.). Ichang. 



2. Acipenser, sp. inc., young specimens from Kiu-kiang. 



3. Psephurus glculius (Martens). Kiu-kiang. 



4. Ekotris xanthi, sp. n. D. 6/i. A. 1/7. L. lat. 33. 



PrsseoperciUum without spine. Twelve series of scales between the 

 origm of the second dorsal fin and the anal. The scales on the neck, 

 cheek, and opercles are small and do not extend on to the interorbital 

 space. Scales finely ciliated. The height of the body is one-fovu'th of 

 the total length (without caudal) ; the lehgth of the head two-sevenths. 

 Ej-e rather small, shorter than the snout, one-fifth of the length of the 

 head, and exceeding the width of the interorbital space. Head rather 

 compressed and high behind, with broad snout, and the lower jaw promi- 

 nent. The maxillary extends to the vertical from the front margin of the 

 orbit. Gill-membranes attached to the median line of the isthmus. 

 Vertical fins lower than the body ; caudal fin rounded, equal in length 

 to the pectorals, which are three-fifths of the length of the head. Light- 

 coloured, with broad, indistinct, darker cross bands on the sides. Dorsal 

 and caudal fins indistinctly spotted with brown ; no spot at the base of 

 the pectoral fin. 



This species, of which there is only one specimen in the collection, 

 2i inches long, is allied to Eleotris i^otamopliila, but readily distinguished 

 from it by its narrow, scaleless, interorbital space. I do not know of any 

 other species of this genus ascending in fresh water to a similar distance 

 from the sea. 



5. Ophiocepkalus argus (Cant.). Kiu-kiang. 



6. Poly acanthus ojjcrcularis (L.). Kiu-kiang. 



7. Mastacembelus chinensis (Blkr.). Ichang. 



8. Silurus asotus (L.). Kiu-kiang and Kia-tiang-fu. 



