148 Remarks on Fishes. 



those of Cherra Ponji, but as most of the specimens are 

 sufficiently perfect to be identified and described, we hope 

 to be able in a future number to notice those that have 

 been forwarded to us in detail. 



We have received two specimens of fish from Dr. Camp- 

 bell, the political agent at Darjeeling, taken from the ele- 

 vated source of one of the rivers in the Sekim mountains ; 

 they both proved to be species of Schizothorax, namely 

 Schizothorax plagiostomus, and S. Hugelii, Heck, which 

 were first discovered by Baron Hugel in Cashmere. We 

 must still defer our notice of the two species alluded to in 

 our last number, p. 559, as received from Arracan. 



We have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of 

 a collection of fishes from Mr. Hodgson of Nepal, in which 

 we observe the following species ; Ophiocephalus morulius, 

 Cyprinus semiplolus , Silurus paba, Leuciscus brachiatus, 

 Barbus marocephalus, Orienus progastus, Plotosus canius, 

 Ophiocephalus guacha, Platycara nasuta, Psilorhynchus 

 variegatus, Silurus singio, Opsarius anisocheilus, and some 

 others, which will require examination, particularly of 

 the genus Barbus, a group which in India is both nu- 

 merous and important. The species of this genus are all 

 inhabitants of the large rivers near the base of mountains 

 where the streams are rapid. We shall be glad to hear 

 from Mr. Hodgson whether these fishes were taken in the 

 valley of Nepal, or at the foot of the mountains ; most of the 

 species are similar to those which inhabit the Brahmapootra 

 near the rapids. Mr. J. W. Grant, to whom we have had 

 frequent occasion to express our obligations, recently direct- 

 ed our attention to the peculiarities of several beautiful 

 transparent fishes, which had been brought to him as mi- 

 croscopic objects, the largest being little more than half 

 an inch in length. None of these minute species escaped 

 the notice of Buchanan ; one of them, fig. 1 , plate IV. be- 

 longs to his genus Chanda, the other, fig. 2, plate IV. he 



