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Mystus Badgee, Sykes. A Mystus, with not less than 105 rays in the 

 anal fin, 7 or 8 in the dorsal, and in the pectoral from 13 to 16, 

 all unarmed; without apparent ventral fins, and with a single 

 small dorsal; the anal and caudal fins uniting, and terminating in 

 a point at the end of the body; posterior edge of the last gill 

 plate crenated; scales minute. This remarkable fish belongs to 

 the genus Mystus of Buchanan Hamilton, but not to the genus 

 Mystus of Cuvier. Fish vertically compressed. Length, 1 1 inches ; 

 height 3 inches. 



Ord. Apodes. 



Fam. Mureenidee. 

 Anguilla, CuA r . 



Any. Elphinstonei, Sykes. An Anguilla, with the lower jaw the 

 longest; with the back, tail, and anal fins united, and with a 

 broadish, flat head; body dark green, blotched with black; with 

 2 short tubular processes, one on each side of the upper jaw. 

 Attains the length of 3 feet, and diameter of 3 inches. 



I have dedicated this fine fish to the Honourable Mountstewart 

 Elphinstone. 



In concluding my characters of the fishes of Dukbun (Deccan), I may 

 be allowed to state, that I have found the number of cirri, whether in 

 the Siluridce or Cyprinida, insufficient as a generic character ; different 

 species of the same genus varying in the number of the cirri." 



February 26, 1839.— Rev. F. W. Hope, in the Chair. 



A communication from the Bishop of Down and Connor was read, 

 giving an account of Antilope Philantomba, Ogilb. lately brought from 

 Sierra Leone, by F. W. Mant, Esq. Also a communication by Lieut. H. 

 K. Sayers, on the habits of another species of Monkey from Sierra 

 Leone. 



At the request of the Chairman, Mr. Ogilby proceeded to make some 

 observations upon a new species of Monkey, now living at the Society's 

 Menagerie, which he characterized as follows .- 



Papio Melanotus. P. cinereo-brunneus ; capite, dorso, lumbisque sub- 

 nigris ; cauda brevissima, nuda ; facie, auriculisque pallidis. 



The specimen from which this description is taken is a young male, 

 said to have been brought from Madras. It has at first sight a consider- 



