1917.] Fauna of the Chilka Lake : Fish. 505 



1842. Ophicephalus indicus, M'Clelland, Cal. Journ. Nat. Hist., II, p. 583. 



1848. Ophiocephalus pundatus, Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Se, p. 145. 



1853. Ophiocephalus pundatus, Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., XXV, p. 95. 

 1861. Ophiocephalus pundatus, Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., Ill, p. 469. 

 1861. Ophiocephalus afßnis, Id., ibid., p. 470. 



1865. Ophiocephalus pundatus, Day, Fish. Malabar, p. 151. 



1878. Ophiocephalus pundatus, Id., Fish. Ind., p. 367, pi. lxxviii fig. 1. 



1889. Ophiocephalus pundatus, Id., Faun. Brit. Ind. Fish., II, p. 364. 



1909. Ophiocephalus pundatus, Jenkins, Rec. Ind. Mus., Ill, p. 287. 



1910. Ophiocephalus pundatus, Id., ibid., V, p. 138. 



1911. Ophiocephalus pundatus, Chaudhuri, ibid., VI, p. 23. 



There are two specimens in the collection ; one measuring 148 mm. in length 

 is from Parikud. The other, 108 mm. in length, was secured in the month of Sep- 

 tember, 1914 at Barkul. In Parikud the fish was probably introduced through 

 human agency. The presence of the fish in September near Barkul, when the water 

 of this part of the lake is almost fresh, is easily accounted for. 



Distribution : — Fresh waters of the East Indian continent and of Ceylon ; Yunnan. 



Suborder PLECTOGNATHI. 



Division SCLEBODERMI. 



Family TRIACANTHIDAE. 



Genus TRIACANTHUS, Cuvier. 



Triacanthus brevirostris, Temminck and Schlegel. 



1754. Batistes sp., Gronovius, Mus. Ichthyol., I, p. 52, pi. cxv. 



1763. Batistes bipes, Gronovius, Zoophyl., p. 53, pi. cccxciv. 



1803. Batistes sp. (Bowree and Abatoo), Russell, Fish. Vizag., I, p. 14, pi. xxi. 



1830. Batistes biacideatus, Bennett, Fish. Ceylon, p. 15, pi. xv. 



1849. Triacanthus biaculeatus, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 1342. 



1850. Triacanthus brevirostris, Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japon. Pisces., p. 294, pi. cxxix, 



fig. 2. 



1854. Batistes bipes, Gronovius and Gray, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., p. 37. 

 1854. Triacanthus brevirostris, Hollard, Ann. Sc. Nat., I, p. 45, pi. ii, fig. 1. 

 1865. Triacanthus biacideatus , Day, Fish. Malabar, p. 260. 



1870. Triacanthus brevirostris, Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VIII, p. 210. 



1878. Triacanthus brevirostris, Day. Fish. Ind., p. 685, pi. clxxv, fig, 1. 



1889. Triacanthus brevirostris, Id., Faun. Brit. Ind. Fish., II, p. 471, fig. 170. 



1903. Triacanthus brevirostris, Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc, I, pp. 181 and 183. 



1910. Triacanthus brevirostris, Annandale and Jenkins, Mem. Ind. Mus., Ill, pp. 8 and 11. 



1910. Triacanthus brevirostris, Jenkins, Rec. Ind. Mus., V., p. 136. 



1912. Triacanthus brevirostris, Id., ibid., VII, p. 6. 



The specific name "bipes " by Dr. Laurence Theodore Gronow is the earliest, re- 

 ported to be written before 1777 and said to be published in 1780. The species was 

 described by Gronow as early as 1754 (Mus. Ichthyol. 1 ). 



1 " Catalogue of Fish collected and described by Laurence Theodore Gronow now in the British 

 Museum." Published by order of the Trustees, in 1854 ; edited by J. K. Gray, pp. v-vii and 37. 



