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9. EajSta Cameeami, Blgr. 



Bauda, Urmi Kiver. Two young specimens. 



10. BcjJFO viKiDis, Laur. 



A young specimen from Sujbulak and several tadpoles from 

 the town-ditch at Urmi. 



11. Hyla akboeea, L. 



Several specimens, half-grown, young, and larvae, belonging to 

 the var. Savignyi, Aud. Bash Nurashin, Urmi town, Banda, 

 Superghan ; also a young specimen from Lake Urmi, "in salt 

 viater." 



The tadpoles have the black lines on the muscular part of the 

 tail to which attention has been drawn by Camerano. 



12. Pelobates euscus, Laur. 



Three large tadpoles from Superghan, one with well-developed 

 limbs. This species was known to occur at Lenkoran on the 

 Caspian, but had not yet been recorded from Persia. 



PISHES. 



By Dr. A. Gunthek, P.R.S., P.L.S. 



(Plates 23 & 24.) 



The general character of the Preshwater-fish Pauna of Western 

 Asia, as a part of the Europaeo-Asiatic region, is well known 

 through the researches of Eusseil, Heckel, de Pilippi, Keyserling, 

 Kessler, Kadde, Lortet, Saiivage, and myself* ; and in this respect 

 the small collection from the Urmi basia does not contribute 

 any additional facts of great novelty. On the other hand, our 

 acquaintaoce with the local faunas of the various districts of 

 Western Asia is more or le&s fragmentary, and a comparative 

 study of the several species of which they are composed is a great 

 desideratum. Of the Pish-fauna of the Urmi district we had no 

 positive knowledge whatever; and the materials available at 

 present for a useful direct comparison of the species inhabiting 

 the rivers which take their rise in the Kurdistan and Armenian 

 mountains, viz., the Tigris, Euphrates, Kur, Araxes, and the Lake 

 Van and Urmi rivers, are extremely scanty and insufficient for the 

 purpose. 



* Consult more especially H. E. Sauvage, " Notice sur la Faune ichthyologique 

 de rOuest de I'Asie," JVouv. Arch. Mus. vii. 1884. 



