142 Report on some Fishes received from Sitang River. [Xo. 2, 



Of the foregoing fifteen species of Scicenidce, twelve have heen 

 obtained in the Calcutta fish-bazars, and only five of them are noticed 

 by Buchanan Hamilton, though he appears to have confounded Sci:e- 



NOLDES BIATJEITUS with Sc. PAMA. 



A remarkable little fish obtained in the Calcutta fish-bazars may 

 be designated — 



Ueanoscopus adh^sipinnis, nobis, n. s. : having the ventral fins 

 well separated apart, but each being connected along its whole inner 

 edge to the skin of the abdomen, forming apparently an adhesive 

 disk. Another curious character consists in a duplicature of the skin 

 within the upper angle of the gill-cover, forming a sort of tube 

 communicating with the gills when the opercle is closed. The 

 anterior dorsal consists of ten almost detached spines, of which the 

 first (which is close to the occiput) is longest. The upper part of 

 the head is ridged, shewing angular interspaces or compartments, 

 mostly of a squarish form : on the gill-covers are five distinct cross- 

 ridges, and a sixth less distinct below. Above each lateral line is a 

 series of prominent tubercles, and the lateral line is near to and runs 

 almost parallel with the middle of the back. The ventrals reach as 

 far back as the pectorals. 



D. 1Q— 14 — A. 11.— P. 15.— V. 5.— 0. 11. 



General colour olive-brown, paler below, and whitish about the 

 gill-openings, with all the fins blackish and obscurely mottled. 

 Largest specimen obtained 2f in. ; but the species doubtless attains 

 a much greater size. 



Fam. ? 



Toxotes miceolepis, nobis, n. s. Exceedingly like T. jactjlatoe, 

 but the scales conspicuously very much smaller, especially on the 

 lower half of the body ; the eye being also proportionally rather larger, 

 and the body-markings much more developed, forming broken or 

 discontinuous longitudinal bands. The fin-rays appear to be the 

 same. From the Sitang river. 

 Fam. AnabantidcB . 



Colisa vulgaris, C. V. Sitang river. 

 Fam. Zeidce. 



Miceozeus, nobis, «. g. A remarkable minute fish, which is little 



