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those of the caudal. Pectorals and ventrals long and lanceolate. The 

 fin rays are D. 8 : P. 10 : V. 8 : A. 6 : C. 18. 



Habitat, mountain streams at Simla*. Length two and half inches. 



Species, S. rupecula, J. M. PI. LV. f. 3, a. b. 



About fourteen broad bars on either side, and three across the caudal 

 and dorsal ; without suborbitar spines, six cirri, four in front, and one at 

 each corner of the mouth. The third ray from the upper and lower 

 margins of the caudal a little longer than the outer ones. Lower sur- 

 face of the body and head nearly flat, pectorals and ventrals lanceolate. 



The fin rays are D. 8 : P. 10: V. 8 : A. 7 : C. 16. 



Habitat, mountain streams at Simla\. Length two inches. 



The air vessels of Schiturce I have found in a bilobate case, rather 

 perhaps cartilaginous than bony, placed over the entrauce to the oesopha- 

 gus : a magnified figure of this case is given, As. Res. XIX. PL LV. 

 f. 4, while the natatory bladder of the true loaches, Cobitis propria, is 

 contained in an oval bony case of only one lobe or cell (fig. 5, loc. cit.) 

 also placed over the entrance of the oesophagus, where from its promi- 

 nence as well as the minute spines with which its surface is covered it 

 may probably perform some function connected with deglutition. 



IV. — Report upon the Coal beds of Assam. (Submitted to Govern- 

 ment by the Committee appointed to investigate the Coal and Iron 

 resources of the Bengal Presidency, as a supplement to their first 

 printed report.) 



Capt. Vetch in a letter to the commissioner of Assam, dated 25th 

 November, 1837, mentions having found detached specimens of various 

 kinds of coal in the Jellundee Betseeree, and Booroolee rivers that fall 

 into the Bramapulra from the Butan mountains between the 92° and 

 93° degrees of east longitude: at various distances from 14 to 20 

 miles from their confluence with the main river, and not far from the 

 foot of the mountains. 



The situations in which these specimens were found by Capt. Vetch 

 are marked by the letters A, B, C, on the annexed sketch-map of the 

 coal districts in Assam, 



The great number of more advantageous situations in which coal 

 has been found in Assam renders the question as to the quality and 

 precise situations of the beds respectively from whence Capt. Vetch's 

 specimens were obtained, a matter of secondary importance, but a proof 

 so unquestionable of the existence of coal at different points for an extent 

 * Found by Dr. MacLoed. f Found by Dr. MacLoed. 



