VI 
PREFACE. 
Service, for his valuable assistance in carrying this work through the Press: and to 
Dr. Bleekee, 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— Garanx melanostethos: Nandus Malabaricus : Mugil poicilus: Ophiocephalus 
diplogramme : Mastacemblus G 'untheri: Hypselobagrus armatus : Pseudobagrus chryseus: 
Kara Malabarica : Nemacheilus triangularis: Platacanthus agrensis : Garra Malabarica: 
Puntius mel/mampyx : Puntius Denisonii: Puntius parrah: Puntius per lee: Puntius 
vittatus: Amblypliarygnodon Jerdoni: Barilius Bakeri: Paradanio aurolineatus , &c. 
Whilst the East Indian Museum has 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 1 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 2Gth, 1524. 
