362 iS FISHES. 
MALACOPTERYGI (ABDOMINALES). 
Bagrus gulio, Buch. 
albilabris, C. & V. 
Plotosus lineatus, C. § V. 
Barbus tor, C. & P. 
Nuria thermoicos, C.& 
Leuciscus dandia, C. & V. 
scalpellus, C. & V. 
Ceylonicus, E. Benn. 
thermalis, C. & V. 
Cobitis thermalis, C. & Vz 
Chirocentrus dorab, Forsk. 
Elops saurus, L 
{Cuar. X. 
LOPHOBRANCHI. 
Syngnathus, L. 
PLECTOGNATHIL 
Tetraodon ocellatus, W. Benn. 
tepa, Buch. 
argyropleura, E. Bennett. 
argentatus, Blyth. 
Balistes biaculeatus, W. Benn. 
lineatus, Bl. 
Triacanthus biaculeatus, W. Benn. 
Alutarius levis, Bl. 
Megalops cundinga, Buch. 
Engraulis Brownii, Gm. 
Sardinella leiogaster, C. § V. 
lineolata, C. & V. 
Neohowii. 
Saurus myops, Val. 
Saurida tombil, Bl. 
Il. CARTILAGINOUS, 
Pristis antiquorum, Lath, 
cuspidatus, Lath. 
pectinatus, Lath. 
Chiloscyllium plagiosum, Benn. 
Stegostoma fasciatum, Bi. 
Carcharias acutus, Riipp. 
Sphyrna zygena, L. 
Rhynchobatus levis, Bl. 
Trygon uarnak, Forsk. 
Pteroplatea micrura, Bl, 
Teniura lymna, Forsk. 
Myliobatis Nienhofii, Bl. 
Aétobates narinari, Bl. 
MALACOPTERYGI (SUB-BRANCHIATI). 
Pleuronectes, L. 
MALACOPTERYGH (APODA). 
Murena. 
NOTE (A.)° 
INSTANCES OF FISHES FALLING FROM THE CLOUDS IN INDIA. 
(From the Bombay Times, 1856.) 
See Page 343. 
The late Dr. Buist, after enumerating cases in which fishes 
were said to have been thrown out from volcanoes in South 
America and precipitated from clouds in various parts of the 
world, adduced the following instances of similar occurrences 
in India. “In 1824,” he says, “ fishes fell at Meerut, on the 
men of Her Majesty’s 14th Regiment, then out at drill, and 
were caught in numbers. In July, 1826, live fish were seen 
to fall on the grass at Moradabad during a storm. They were 
the common cyprinus, so prevalent in our Indian waters. On 
the 19th of February, 1830, at noon, a heavy fall of fish 
occurred at the Nokulhatty factory, in the Daccah zillah; 
