334 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Aug.-Sept., 1913. 
PISCES. 
The receding tide left numerous small pools among the 
rocks; the e contained many small fish, among which the 
following were identified. 
Mugil cocruleo-maculatus, Lacépede. 
Mugil jerdoni, Day. 
Mugil waigiensis, Quoy and Gaim. 
Muraena meleagris, Shaw. 
Periophthalmus koelreuteri (Pall). 
Salarias dussumieri, Cuv. and Val. 
Salarias lineatus Cuv. and Val. 
Sciena miles, Cuv. and Val. 
Tetraodon fluviatilis, Ham. Buch. 
Therapon jerbua (Forsk.). 
With the exception of the two species of Salarias, all were 
quite young immature specimens. 
All the freshwater streams flowing into the Basin were 
swarming with examples of Haplochilus panchax (Ham. Buch.), 
and a few exanples of Haplochilus melastigma (McClell.) were 
also obtiined from the same sources. To one of the larger 
Specimens of the former a parasitic Copepod, belonging to the 
Lernaeopodidae, was attached just beneath the left ventral fin. 
INsEcTA. 
@ sample by the Chemical Examiner, Rangoon, gave the 
following results :— 
Total solids = 6035'12 grains per allon. 
Chlorides =3024-00 ge i : 
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_The water was thus nearly three times as concentrated as 
ordinary sea-water and yet these animals were able to live and 
breed in it freely. 
Crustace:.—The following species are all fairly common 
on the beach or in the adjacent Mangrove swamps. 
Grapsus strigosus, Herbst. 
Ocypoda ceratophthalma Pallas), Ortm. 
Ocypoda cordimana, Desm. 
Sesarma quadratum, Fabr. 
Sesarma taeniolatum, White. 
_ The Ocypoda ceratophthalma were exceedingly common ; 
- is well known these crabs burrow in the sand and make holes 
or themselves, in which they live. The larger specimens 
