On the Species of Asiatic two-horned Rhinoceros. 399 



head. Snout very short, one third of the diameter of the eye. 

 Pectoral long and pointed, as long as the head ; dorsal small, 

 its origin nearly midway between the end of the snout and the 

 extremity of the caudal. The silvery band is narrow, bordered 

 above and below by a very conspicuous series of black dots ; 

 a third series of similar dots runs along the middle of the row 

 of scales below the silvery band. 



Two specimens, 3^ inches long, from Cebu ; we have re- 

 ceived also two others from Amboyna. 



Salarias holomelas. 

 D.30. A. (2 + ) 19. 



Allied to Salarias fiiscus. 



Body comparatively short, its depth being contained thrice 

 and one eighth in the iotal length (without caudal) . Anterior 

 profile of the forehead nearly vertical. Canine teeth none. No 

 orbital tentacle, no crest on the head. The dorsal fin is not 

 notched; this fin, as well as the anal, is elevated, all the 

 spines and rays terminating in very fine filaments ; both fins 

 connected by a short membrane with the caudal, which is also 

 produced. Entirely black. 



One example, 3 inches long, from Cebu. 



LVII. — On the Species of Asiatic two-horned Rhinoceros. 

 By Edward Blyth, Hon. Memb. As. Soc. &c. 



In some remarks on two species of Asiatic two-horned rhino- 

 ceros ( Ceratorhinus of Gray) which appeared in the ' Annals ' 

 [antea^ p. 208), Dr. Gray awards to me the discredit of sup- 

 posing " that the one inhabits the east coast of the Bay of 

 Bengal and the series of islands extending to Sumatra, and the 

 other the Malay peninsula and Tenasserim, separated in Bur- 

 mah by the Irrawaddy river." Now as that is a part of the 

 globe with the geography of which I happen to be tolerably 

 familiar, and as, moreover, I have especially studied the fauna 

 of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and was the first to bring- 

 to notice sundry species inhabiting those islands, it is therefore 

 somewhat unlikely that I should have suspected them of har- 

 bouring such an animal as a rhinoceros, or that I should have 

 ignored the fact that the Tenasserim provinces and northern 

 part of the Malayan peninsula constitute, equally with the 

 provinces of Chittagong and Arakan, portions of the eastern 

 boundary of the Bay of Bengal. 



I do know for certain that the small blackish and coarse- 

 haired rhinoceros procured at Malacca, an example of which 

 died lately in the Regent's Park, is identical with one of those 



