ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF A TOUR IN THE FAR EAST. 
FISH OF THE TAL£ SAP, PENINSULAR SIAM (Part II). 
By Sunder Lal Hora, D.Sc, Officiating Superintendent, Zoological 
Survey of India. 
(Conumiiiicated with tlie permission of the Director, Zoological Survey of India.) 
INTRODUCTION. 
The second and concluding part of the report on the fish of the Tale Sap con- 
tains a systematic treatment of 72 species, which are distributed among 42 families. 
The number of specimens examined has not been large since each species is repre- 
.sented by a few examples only. In certain cases it has been exceedingly difficult to 
identify the specimens specifically on account of their immaturity. Moreover, I have 
not been able to determine some very young forms and, therefore, notes on them have 
not been included in this report. 
In the first part no particular taxanomic classification was adopted, but since 
then Jordan's useful work entitled the Classification of Fishes ' has appeared. For 
the sake of convenience of reference I have followed Jordan in the arrangement of 
the species in this paper. Most of the forms discussed here are marine and are fairly 
wideh- distributed. The endemic element, as has already been pointed out, is not so 
rich as was found to be in the Chilka Lake. Two new species are described ; the}^ 
belong to the genera Taenioides and Sciaenea. 
The types of the new species are preserved in the collection of the Zoological 
Survey of India. 
Family MEGALOPIDAE. 
Megalops cyprinoides (Brouss.). 
H)i3. Me^aiops c\'f>r'iioides Weber and Beaufort, Fish. Indo-A ustral. Arcliipel. II. p. 5, fig. 4. 
Two specimens of this species were obtained by Dr. Annandale at the mouth of 
the Patalung river. Megalops cyprinoides is widely distributed in the Oriental Region 
and its range extends westwards to east coast of Africa and Madagascar and 
eastwards to Philippines, China and Riu-Kiu-islands. It is common in seas and 
estuaries and enters fre.sh water also. 
I Jordan, The Clas.sifii-atiou of Fishes. Stanford University Publications. University series. Biological Sciences 111, 
pt. 2, pp. 79-343 (1923). 
