Apodal Fishes of Bengal. 



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arch, performing the functions at once of lungs and gills. The 

 body is covered with small imbricated scales. The branchial 

 apertures and fins as in Ophicardia, but the ventral aperture 

 is not quite so far back. 



Pneumabranchus striatus, Nob. 

 Unibranchapertura Cuchia, Buch. ^ 



f Colour above olive green, with small 

 round black spots ; two or three 

 white streaks extending a short 

 way along the sides from the back 

 of the head. Below yellowish- 

 white. The anus is at a distance 

 of 3-4th of the entire length from 

 the muzzle. The tail is compressed 

 and narrow. The reflection of 

 skin representing the dorsal fin, 

 occupies the latter two-thirds of 

 the tail. 



.Hab. — Bengal. 



Pneumabranchus leprosus, 

 Nob. 



Body yellowish white, with a few irre- 

 gular dark spots of various size scat- 

 tered over the body. And the mem- 

 branous expansion representing an 

 .' adipose dorsal commences almost 

 I as far forward as the vent. 

 LHab. — .Bengal. 



{Colour uniformly bright yellow, 

 pupils black, irides narrow, and 

 bright golden yellow, surrounded 

 by a livid zone. 

 Hab. — Bengal. 



Pneumabranchus cinereus, Nob. 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. t. /. J 



' Colour dark dusky grey above, blue- 

 ish grey below. The anus situa- 

 ted a little before the posterior 

 fourth part of the entire length. 

 The membranous expansion repre- 

 senting the dorsal, begins to appear 

 before the middle of the tail. 

 Hab. — Chusan and Ningpoo in China. 



III. Gen. — Synbranchus, Bloch. 



A single branchial aperture forming a longitudinal fissure 

 under the throaty a thick head and blunt narrow muzzle. 



