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F. Day — Notes on Fish from Kachh. 
most probably vittata of Peters. He sent a drawing of a middle-aged 
specimen to Prof. Peters, wbo says that there is no distinction traceable 
between the figure of the Kachh specimen and the type of vittata. The 
head, above, is spotted with dark, and the entire carapace is marked with 
very numerous irregularly radiating dark streaks. The granulation of the 
carapace becomes apparent after the epidermis has (hied up, in fresh specimens 
no trace of it is to be seen. Young specimens are rather flat, but in old 
ones the convexity of the carapace is very considerable, and the shell is 
somewhat depressed along the centre. The species is common both in rivers 
and tanks, and is often met with crawling from one pool of water to another ; 
I have seen specimens up to a length of 15 inches. One, recently received, 
has the carapace 105 inches long, and 7'7 broad across the abdomen ; and 
the total height is nearly 3'5 inches. The odd osseous antero-eentral plate 
of the sternum is broadly rounded, somewhat narrower in front than behind, 
1-3 inch long and l - 5 inch broad ; the two posterior plates form a suture, 
2’3 inch long, they are perfectly united, as in E. Ceylonensis, which has a 
quite similar coloration, and to which vittata is united by Gray in Shield 
Kept., 1870, p. 117. 
Notes on Pish, collected by De. Stoliczka in Kachh, — 
by Surgeon Major P. Day. 
[Received 2Gth Juno, read 3rd July, 1872.] 
I am indebted to Dr. Stoliczka for the following eighteen species of 
fish with their local names, collected by him during his recent tour through 
Kachh. They are interesting as extending our knowledge of the localities 
to which species spread, and also as first demonstrating the existence of the 
Genus Cgpriuodon in the fresh waters of India. 
Fam . — GoniiD.L. 
1. Oobius giuris, Ham. Duel). Kharba Mah. Tulli, Kachh. 
Five specimens up to 6 inches in length. 
The inferior pharyngeal bones are each of a triangular shape, the base 
being external, whilst the two bones are closely approximated together 
along nearly two-thirds of their internal margins. 
Fam . — OPHIOCEPHALIDiE. 
2. Ophiocephalus punctatus, Bl. Dhor, Kachh ; Dhaka by foreigners. 
Fam . — Cypelnodontidj:. 
3. Cypkinodon Stoliczkanps, sp. nov. 
B. Ill, D. 1/8, P. 17, V. 7, A 2/7, C. 15, L. 1. 27, L. tr. 8. . 
Length of head 1/4, of caudal 1/5, height of body 1/4, of dorsal and anal 
fins 1/3, (in the males), about 1/8 in the females, of the total length. Eyes : 
