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the coast of tte East Indies, ascending the great rivers for a long 

 distance from the sea (p. 430). 



GrOBiiDiE. — Members of this family are omitted by Dr. Grunther 

 from among the freshwater fish-fauna of India. In the district 

 or division to which I restricted my designation of "India," several 

 genera are found having representatives in the fresh waters, and 

 which I will enumerate. — Q-ohius : Dr. Giinther says, " Not a few 

 have become entirely acclimatized in fresh waters, especially lakes ' ' 

 (p. 486). — Grohius giuris, H. B, Hamilton Buchanan observes 

 that it is found "in all the ponds and freshwater rivers in the 

 Grangetic provinces, where it is a very common fish" (Grangetic 

 Fishes, p. 51) ; Bleeker, that it is found in " Bombay, Bengalia, 

 Jihlum, Dukhun" (p. 51) ; Sykes gives it as in the Deccan 

 under the designation of Oobius hurpah (I. c. p. 352) ; Jerdon 

 says G. kokms h "ybvj common in tanks, rivers, and ditches 

 throughout the south of India" (Madras Journ. Lit. & Science, 

 1849, vol. XV. p. 148). 



Grenus Sicydium, of which I have obtained two species, one 

 from f resli waters in Burma, the other from fresh waters in Canara. 

 In Dr. Griinther's 'Introduction' he says of these fish, " Small 

 freshwater fishes inhabiting the rivers and rivulets of the islands 

 of the Tropical Indo-Pacific" (p. 487). Possibly my species, 

 which are figured in the ' Fishes of India,' have been overlooked ; 

 also Blocker's, referred to in the 'Catalogue of the Fishes of the 

 British Museum' (vol. iii. p. 93), as 8. coanthurum from "rivers 

 of "West Sumatra and Bali," S. micrurum from " rivers of 

 Amboyna and Bali " (p. 94), &c. &c. 



Grenus FeriopJithalmus, of which I obtained P. ScMosseri in 

 fresh waters, especially in thelrrawaddi and its branches, as well 

 as in estuaries. 



Genus JEleotris. — I have found the E. fusca in fresh waters ; 

 while of this geuus Dr. Grunther (Introduction, p. 488) observes 

 on " some of them being abundant in the rivulets of the islands 

 of the Indo-Pacific." Hamilton Buchanan, alluding to this 

 species under the designation of Gheilodipterus culms, says it " is 

 pretty common in the ponds and ditches of Bengal " (Z. c. p. 55) ; 

 Jerdon, that " it is very common in Malabar in ditches and tanks " 

 (Z. c. p. 149). 



Thus it appears that in the list of the Indian freshwater fish- 

 fauna the family of GToBiiDiE has been omitted by Dr. Giinther 



