1320 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. [Dec. 



In Ophisternon hepaticus, McClelland, (Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 198 and 221, Tab. XI. Fig. 3-4) the eyes are said to be placed " a 

 little before the posterior openings of the nostrils." Both description 

 and figures are too defective to identify the species. 



Gen. Monopterus, ([Commerson] Lacepede, 1800,) Cuvier, 1829. 



(Ophicardia, McClelland, 1844.*) 



With the two branchial apertures united under the throat in a trans- 

 versal fissure, divided in the middle by a partition ; dorsal and anal 

 only visible in the middle of the tail and uniting at its point ; teeth 

 like those of a card in the jaws and palatals ; branchiostegous rays six ; 

 branchiae three. 



tus the length of the head varied from 9£ times in, to -^ of the total, and that of the 

 tail from 3| to 3|. As observed by M. Johannes Miiller, this species has several 

 anatomical characters resembling those of Amphipnous cuchia, (Buchan. Hamilton). 

 Syn. Dondoo Paum, Russell : XXXV. — Ifnibranchapertura cuchia, Buchan. Ham. 

 16, 363, PI. XVI. Fig. 4. (Synon. exclus.) — Synbranchus cuchia, Cuv. R. A. II. 

 354 ( 2 ). (Synon. exclus.) — Cuchia, Taylor, in Gleanings in Science, II. 173. — 

 Synbranchus cashia, Swainson, II. 336. — Ophichthys punctatus, Swainson, ibid, — 

 Amphipnous cuchia, Miiller : Archiv. 15,1840. — Amphipnous cuchia, J. Miiller : 

 Myxinoiden in Abh. Berl. Akad, 1839, 244, (Berlin, 1841).— Cuchia, McClelland, 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV. 411. — Pneumabranchus striatus, McClelland: Calc. 

 Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 192 and 219, PI. XIII. — Pneumabranchus leprosus, McClel- 

 land, ibid. 195 and 219. — Pneumabranchus albinus, McClelland, ibid. 196 and 219. 



Dondoo Paum, Russell, XXXV, has been identified by the examination of a 

 specimen in the collection of Mr. Walter Elliot, who obtained it from the Anka- 

 pilly Lake. The discovery of the lung-like sacs of this eel belongs to James Taylor, 

 Esq. late Civil Surgeon of Dacca, and has been acknowledged by Mr. Johannes 

 Miiller. Although the treatise entitled : *< Apodal Fishes of Bengal," has added 

 nothing new to our knowledge of the anatomy and habits of the fish, no reference is 

 made in it to Mr. Taylor's original communication in ' Gleanings in Scie?ice,' (1. c.) 

 Russell discovered Amphipnous cuchia in the Ankapilly Lake ; Buchanan Hamilton 

 observed the fish in rivers and ponds of the South East parts of Bengal, and Mr. 

 W. Griffith in Assam. In December 1848 an individual was taken in the Che- 

 naub near our camp at Ramnuggur, and in February 1849 another was taken in the 

 Jehlum not far from our Camp at Chillianwalla. (Punjaub.) 



* "Ophicardia: (Scr. Ophiocardia)." Two broad bands of teeth on the 

 upper and one on the lower jaw ; a single transverse opening under the throat, 

 diverging on either side to the gills, which consist of three slightly pectinate fleshy 



