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all been already described in these Archives, 1838, i. p. 97, to which I 
refer. The section on Fish contains a copious introduction on fishing, 
and its extension to the Caspian Sea. 
McClelland has given some interesting information on the Indian 
Fishes, collected in different regions by GrifiS.th. (Calcutta Journal, 
p. 560.) The new Fishes collected in Atfghanistan have been described 
and drawn. They are mentioned below. 
Cantor remarks on the Fishes of the island of Chusan, in his treatise 
previously mentioned, p. 95, that those forms of sea fish which became 
known to him were almost all also inhabitants of the Bay of Bengal 
and other parts of the Indian Ocean. The fresh-water fishes are mostly 
Indian forms. Two species inhabit Bengal, viz., Anahas scandens, and 
Cyprinus daniconius, Ham. ; one is Javanese, and three are European : 
among the latter is an Eel, which seems to be identical with Anguilla 
latirostris of Yarrell. (Annals, ix. p. 277.) The species are given at 
p. 484 of the same work. Many are considered as new. The remark 
made, when noticing the Reptiles, that the diagnosis is almost wholly 
confined to colour, is equally applicable here. The fin rays are numbered. 
The following species are mentioned : — Anahas scandens, Cuv. ; Mac- 
ropodus ocellatus, Ophicephalus argus, Mugil cephalotus, Cuv. ; 
Periophthalmus modestus, Eleotris Jiammans, Cyprinus gihelioides, 
Cyprinus auratus, Leuciscus daniconius, Hamilt. ; Cohitis anguilli- 
caudata, Hemiramphus intermedius, Silurus punctatus, Anguilla 
latirostris, Synhranchus grammicus. 
Cantor has also given a list of these species in M‘CleUand’s Calcutta 
Journ, vol. ii. 1842, p. 102. 
A number of Ph. Fr. de Siebold’s Fauna Japonica, Lugduni Bata- 
vorum, appeared in the year 1842, which includes Fishes. This work 
was undertaken by Schlegel. The Fishes which appear in it are all of 
the family of Percoidce ; many are lithographed and beautifully coloured ; 
but, upon closer inspection, one is tempted to doubt their correctness. 
The new species are noticed hereafter. 
In the Transactions of the Zool. Soc. of London, vol. iii. part 1, 1842, 
there appeared a Supplement to a Synopsis of the Fishes of Madeira, by 
Lowe. The results have already been mentioned, from the Proceedings 
of the Zoological Society, in a former annual report (Archives, vi. 2), to 
which I refer. 
In the same book is found a treatise by Dr. Richardson on the 
Fishes of Australia, in which the species are very fully described. 
This paper has already been mentioned in the Reports for the years 
1840-41-42, from the epitome of it in the Proceedings of the Zoolo- 
gical Society. There are three copper-plates, containing the fol- 
lowing species ; — Serranus sasor, Nemadactylus concinnus, Trigla 
vanessa and polyomw^ata, Latris hecateia, Clinus despicillatus. Only 
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