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1. Ambassis RANGA = Chaiida ranga, H. B.; C. lala (young), H. B.; 

 Ambassis Bavlovi, Sykes, Bleeker, Jerdon ; A. alta, C. V. ; Chauda 

 (Ambassis) ruconius, M'Clelland. 



Syi.es, as cau be seen on his original drawing, referred Ibis fiab 

 to Hamilton Bucbanan's species. 



' 2. GoBius GiuRis, Ham. Buck. 



This species may be thus subdivided:— (1) G. giuris, H. B., 

 lS[eekeT,= G.catehiis,C.Y.; G. spectahilis, Gilnther. (2) G.kora- 

 onottah, Eussell,= G^. Jcora, C. V. (3) G. hullee-koJcah, Eussell,= 

 G. kurpali, Sykes ; G. Biissellii, C. V. ; G.platycephalus, Peters. 



" Oolooway, Tamil ; OosMa denta, Telugu ; JBalloo seeJcdah, 

 Hind." 



3. Ophiocephalus marulius, Ham. Buck. 



This is not Sykes's fish, of which, however, I have specimens 

 from the Malabar coast and Cauara. The O. marulius appears to 

 invariably possess an ocellus on the base of the caudal fiu, which 

 is absent in the second species. 



4. O. LEUCOPUNCTATus, Sykes, Bleeker, = 0. grandinosus, C. V. 

 The original drawing of Yalencienne's species was brought from 



China ; and the further remark occurs, " la retrouvee dans le 

 Maissour," w^hence Dussumier brought a fine specimen. Sir 

 John Eichardson (Ich. China, p. 252) observes ol Cuvier & Yalen- 

 ciennes' species, " described from a painting executed in China ;" 

 whereas it is most distinctly stated that the description was drawn 

 up from Dussumier's specimen, not from the drawing. Dr. 

 Griinther locates the species, " !Fresh waters of China ; river 

 Maissour." 



Not long since I visited the unrivalled and beautifully kept 

 ichthyological collection in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, 

 which is freely opened to those who wish to study its treasures. 

 Dr. Sauvage was good enough to show me the type specimen of 

 O. grandinosus, C.V., labelled as having been obtained in Malabar 

 by Dussumier. The Maissour is probably the Maisur or Mysore 

 country, from which some of the rivers on the western coast of 

 India were believed to have their origin. I also saw in the fine 

 collection at Berlin a specimen received from the Paris Museum 

 with the locality given as Malabar. The Madras Museum has 

 also received it from the Coromandel coast ; and it is probably the 

 Ophiocephalus termed sowarah by Eussell (Fish. Viz. pi. 163). Of 



