vi PREFACE. 
Service, for his valuable assistance in carrying this work through the Press: and to 
Dr. Bleeker, for having courteously examined various specimens of fish which I for¬ 
warded to him, and been so good as to give me his opinion upon them. 
The following new species, described in this work, have been placed in the British 
Museum —Caranx melanostethos : Nandus Malobaricus : Mugil poieilus: Ophiocephodus 
diplogramme: Mastacemblus Guntheri: Hypselobagrus armatus : Pseudobagrus chryseus: 
Hava Malabarica : Nemacheilus triangularis: Platacanthus agrensis : Garra Malabarica: 
Puntius melpnampyx: Puntius Denisonii: Puntius parrah: Puntius perlee: Puntius 
vittatus: Amblypharygnodon Jerdoni: Barilius Balteri: Paradanio aurolineatus , &c. 
Whilst the East Indian Museum lias been furnished with six of the foregoing, and also 
a specimen of the Engraulis auratus , and upwards of one hundred species which were 
personally collected in Cochin, but of which I possess duplicate specimens. 
The vignette represents the present state of the flag-staff tower in Cochin, raised 
on the ruins of the Portuguese Cathedral of Santa Cruz , the memorable spot where the 
body of the illustrious Don Vasco de Gama, Portuguese Viceroy, High Admiral of the 
Indies, the discoverer of the Cape route, is believed to have been temporarily interred 
about December 26th, 1524. 
