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Icthyologicai Gleanings in Madras. 



[No. 39, 



Amblyopus Hermannianus, C. V. Kondre min, T. 

 Amblyopus cseculus, C. V. also Kondre min, T. 

 Trypauchen vagina, C. V. Sevetti, T. 



Periopthalmus . Greenish marbled with 1st dorsal 



spotted, 2d with a dark bar in the middle, all fins fleshy colour ; 

 abounds in all the estuaries of Malabar, remaining for long on the 

 mud, or climbing up the side of a boat, or stone, or mangrove bush, 

 when driven to the water does n6t dive at once but jumps along 

 the surface and tries to get to shore again. 



Boleophthalmus doddaerti, C. V. Vetti, T. Russ. 54. Two or 

 three other species of Boleophthalmus are found at Madras. 



Opistognathus Sonneratii, C. V. ? found at Madras. 



Rupiscartes . One of Swainson's subgenus occurs at 



Madras. 



Blennius . I found a species of Blenny at the Sacri- 

 fice Rock on the Malabar Coast. 



Cirrhirrhibarbus . I have drawings of three species of 



this ourious genus, all procured at Madras, but rare; one of them is of 

 an uniform brown colour, with the edge of the united dorsal, caudal 

 and anal fins red. Another has the dorsal fin with three large round 

 black spots and a brown edging to the united fins ; and the third 

 has a black edging likewise round the fins. In the first the rays 

 are D - ™ - 



A. 95. 



Salarias dussumierii, C. V. Common in pools among rocks left 

 by the receding tide on the Malabar Coast. 



Batrachus — . I procured one small specimen of about 



3 inches long at Madras of a species of this genus, yellowish brown, 

 mottled and marbled with black. The fishermen did not know it. 



Batrachus Dussumierii, C. V. Common at certain seasons on the 

 Malabar Coast. 



Chanos pala, C. V. Moram kende, T. Russ. 207. 



In my memoir on the fresh water fishes I mentioned this as a 

 species of Butirinus (Albula,) but I find that it belongs to this ge- 

 nus as was pointed out by Dr. Cantor. * 



Chanos. Poo min, Can. This fish which is occasionally found 

 in the sea and estuaries on the Malabar Coast is also mentioned by 

 me as Butirinus indicus. 



