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about 5900 feet, the slope of the latter place being, as observed, to- 

 wards the Helmund. 



Griffith's examples of fishes were, unfortunately, all or nearly all 

 destroyed ; but he had figures made, and determined them to be as 

 follows : — in the Bolau Pass — Barbus (? B. terio), B. tor, Opsarius 

 (? Chela bacaila), Labeo diplost vims, Gonorhynchus (? Cirrhina 

 latid), Silurus Imggur, t Macrognathus {Mastacembelus armatus) ; 

 from a stream at Gurmah flowing into that of the Bolan — Barbus 

 tor, B. {IB. terio), Gonorhynchus (? Cirrhina latia), Systomus bima- 

 culatus (never described if new), ;S. caiiius (this cannot be Barbus 

 canius=:B. gelius, as the species does not extend so far, but it may 

 be B. ticto) ; at Quetta he obtained a Barbus with bright red 

 streaks (I Scaphiodon microphthahnus), two other Cyprinidse (jSca- 

 phiodon irregularis and Barbus milesi), a Gonorhynchus (? Cirrhina 

 latia), and a Loach (Nemacheilus). 



Doubt may exist as to the identity of some of these species ; but 

 as my examples from Quetta agree in number with those discovered 

 by Griffith, it does not seem improbable that we may be both allu- 

 ding to the same forms. I will therefore now pass on to descriptions 

 of such fishes as I have received from Gwadur in Beluchistan and the 

 range of hills terminating at Quetta. 



Ophiocephalus gachtja, Ham. Buch. 



Colonel Miles sent me some small examples from a river near 

 Gwadur ; it has likewise been recorded by Griffith that " two spe- 

 cies of Ophiocephalus are found at Jellalabad which are unknown in 

 Bengal." These two species were described as Ophiocephalus indi- 

 cus and 0. montanus, M'Clelland. Of the former, two examples, 

 viz. from Loodianah and Seharanpore, exist in the British Museum, 

 and are specimens of O. punctatus, which leads one to the conclu- 

 sion that the Jellalabad fish was the same ; while O. montanus, 

 M'Clelland, is identical with O. gachua, the type (from Afghanistan) 

 being stuff'ed and in the British Museum. 



Callichrotjs pabda, Ilam. Buch. 



Silurus anastomus, Cuv. & Val. S. lamghur, Heckel. Callichrous 

 vittatus, Swainson. Cryptopterus latovittatus, Playfair. Calli- 

 chrous egertonii, Day. 



My reasons for uniting these forms into one species I have fully 

 detailed in my ' Fishes of India,' p. 479 ; and, admitting they are 

 all identical, the range of the species is very wide : Griffith found one 

 of this genus in Afghanistan ; and such may have been identical with 

 the beautiful example 5| inches in length sent by Dr. Duke. Its 

 pectoral spine is rather strong and serrated. 



Griffith obtained from the Cabul river at Jellalabad an example 

 of "a Silurus very like, if not identical with, the Poftah." All the 

 species of Callichrous are known as "Poftah ; " therefore it does not 

 appear improbable that it may have been this form which was obtained 

 at Jellalabad, especially as the river eventually finds its way into the 



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