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The coloured illustrations placed above the waterline of the 
various tanks represent common or peculiar Madras fish, 
labelled with their scientific and Tamil names, and all of 
them have at some time or other been included in the collec- 
tion. For 
all the fish 
given time. 
Of the fish that I saw" alive in the Madras Aquarium 
attention may be specially called to the following : — 
Family Notidanidae. 
(i) The very curious Shark, Notidanus indicus. 
Family Scyllidae. 
(ii) Seven specimens of the Dog-fish, Chiloscy Ilium 
indicum. 
Family Muraenidae. 
(iii) Eels of the species Muraena punctata and Muraena 
pseudothyrsoidea. 
Family Percidae. 
(iv) A fish, very like the “ Ishr ” of the Nile, called 
Lates calcarifer. The late Dr. F. Day (“Fauna 
of British India,” Fishes, I, 1889, p. 441) men- 
tions that this species reached 5 feet (1*52 
metres) in length and 200 lbs. (90*71 kilo- 
grammes) in weight. 
• (v) Another species of Sea-Perch, Lutjanus jahngarah. 
(vi) Yet another Sea- Perch, Therapon jarbua. 
Family Squamrnipinnes (or Chaetodontidae). 
(vii) Six specimens of Heniochus mavrolepidotus^ w^hich, 
as Dr. Henderson says, is a fish of striking 
coloration, with its black bands and yellow fins. 
The dorsal fin carries a long white streamer. 
The keeper told me that some individuals have 
lived in this Aquarium for four years. 
Family Cirrhitidae. 
(viii) The Sangan, Cirrhiiichthys aureut. 
obvious reasons it is impossible to ensure that 
figured will be present in the Aquarium at any 
