142 Report on some Fishes received from Sitang River. [No. 2, 



Oí' the foregoing fifteen species of Scicenidce, twelve have been 

 obtained in the Calcutta fish-bazars, and only five oí* them are nofciéed 

 by Buchanan Hamilton, though lie appears to have confbunded Sci,e- 



NOIDES BIATJRITU9 with Se. PAMA. 



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

 be designated — 



Uranoscopus adhíesipinnis, nobis, n. s. : having the ventral fins 

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

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

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

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

 communicating with the gills when the opérele is closed. The 

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

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

 the head is ridged, shewing angular interspaces or compartments, 

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

 rid^es, 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. 10— 14.— ¿. 11.— P. 15.— V. 5— G. 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 doublless attains 

 a much greater size. 



Fam. ? 



Toxotes MiOROLEPis, nobis, n. s. Exceedingly like T. jaculator, 

 but the scales conspicuously very much smaller, especially on the 

 lower half of the bod}'- ; 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. Anabantidcs. 



Colisa yulgaris, C. V. Sitang river. 

 Fam. Zeidcd. 



Microzktjs, nobis, n. g. A remarkable minute fisli, which is little 



