JOURNAL 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SGCIETL 



NOTICE. 



The members of the Society are requested to note that the 

 Abstracts of Meteorological Observations are, from the beginning of 

 the current year, issued with the monthly Proceedings of the 

 Society. The Abstracts for Nov. and Dec. 1870, issued with the 

 1st No. of Part II, Journal, should be added to last year's volume 

 of the Journal. 



my <xui;t;iiUUii, wtt» mo ooiirpr<maxm^ tto itii ao jjiauliua-uit), of dettuieu 



descriptions of the fishes inhabiting those localities, appending 

 their native names whenever procurable. 



The following papers are transcripts from those notes which, 

 however, still contain many a gap that will have to be filled in, . 

 whilst several of the enumerated species, when rediscovered, will 

 also have to be redescribed. Still it appears desirable to publish 

 them in this incomplete form, in the hope that additional informa- 

 tion may be obtained from others who are interested in the enquiry, 

 so as to render it possible at some future date to complete an illus- 

 trated Manual of the fishes of India. The reason why the Carps 

 have been chosen as the first family is merely, because they are 

 the most important in an economic point of view ; and the cypri- 

 NiNiE for the same cause are placed before the homalopterin^s and 



COBITIDIN^E. 



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