150 ME. F. DAT ON THE GEOGfEAPUICAL DI8TK1BUTI0N OF 



ludia to China; 1 India, excluding the west and south coasts, 

 also Assam ; 1 locally in the Malabar coast ; 1 locally in Bui*ma. 



Family MuGiLiniB. 



Genus Mugil. 



1. M. CORSULA, Ham. Buck. 



Rivers and estuaries of Bengal and Burma. 



2. M. Hamiltonii, Day. 

 Rivers of Burma. 



3. M. CAscAsiA, Ham. Buck. 



Ganges and Jumna rivers ; also in the Brahmaputra, in Assam, 



Of the foregoing three species of Mullets ^ from the fresh waters 

 of India and Burma, none has been recognized either in Africa or 

 the Malay archipelago. 



Following out the sea and estuary species of this genus would 

 lead to no conclusions. Mullets extend their range tbrough vast 

 regions ; and those found in India and Africa appear, with but 

 few exceptions, to be also present in the Malay archipelago. It 

 is curious, however, tbat the freshwater species in India have 

 strongly ctenoid scales, such in the marine forms being usually 

 cycloid or feebly ctenoid. 



Fam. Ophiocephalidjsj, 



Genus Ophiocephalus. 



1. O. MAnvhivs', Ham. Buck. 



Fresh waters throughout India and Ceylon to China. 



2. O. LEUCOPUNCTATUS^ Sykes. 



Deccan, Coromandel and western coasts of India, China. 



3. O. psEUDOMARULius, GuiitTier. 

 ? Mysore, probably a hj'brid. 



4. O. BARCA^, Ham. Such. 



Large rivers of Bengal, N.W. Provinces, and Assam. 



' Great errors occur in the clistribution of Indian fishes, due to mistakes ori- 

 ginating with European museum-naturalists, who, transposing labels, still 

 adliere to their original statements. Thus M. nepalensis, Giinther, is evidently 

 a skin of M. dussumim, Cuv. & Val., erroneously labelled Nepal insteatl of 

 Calcutta. 



' Includes 7 Ophiocejjhalui:: Tkcophrasti,Yal., and 0. aurolineatus, Day (young), 



^ Includes Eussell's pi. 173, 0, grandinosH.% C. & V. 



* Includes ?0. nigricans, C. & V., and 0. anqihibiue, M'Oielland. 



