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ocemblus Skinneri, _H. Smith_. Caranx Heberi, _J. Benn_. speciosus, _Forsk_. Rhombus triocellatus, _Cuv. & Val_. Equula dacer, _Cuv. & Val_. filigera, _Cuv. & Val_. Amphacanthus javus, _Linn_. sutor, _Cuv. & Val_. Acanthurus xanthurus, _Blyth_. triostegus, _Bloch_. Delisiani, _Cuv. & Val_. lineatus, _Lacep_. melas, _Cuv. & Val_. Atherina duodecimalis, _Cuv. & Val_. _Blennius_. Salarias marmoratus, _Benn_. alticus, _Cuv. & Val_. Eleotris sexguttata, _Cuv. & Val_. Cheironectes hispidus, _Cuv. & Val_. Tautoga fasciata, _Bloch_. Julis lunaris, _Linn_. decussatus, _W. Benn_. formosus, _Cuv. & Val_. quadricolor, _Lesson_. dorsalis, _Quoy & Gaim_. aureomaculatus, _W. Benn_. Ceilanicus, _E. Benn_. Finlaysoni, _Cuv. & Val_. purpureo-lineatus, _Cuv. & Val_. Gomphosus fuscus, _Cuv. & Val_. viridis, _W. Benn_. Scarus pepo, _W. Benn_. harid, _Forsk_. Malacopterygrii (abdominales). _Silurus_. Bagrus albilabris, _Cuv. & Val_. Plotosus lineatus, _Cuv. & Val_. _Cyprinus_. Barbus tor, _Cuv. & Val_. Nuria thermoicos, _Cuv. & Val_. Leuciscus Zeylonicus, _E. Benn_. thermalis, _Cuv. & Val_. Cobitis thermalis, _Cuv. & Val_. Hemirhamphus Reynaldi, _Cuv. & Val_. Georgii, _Cuv. & Val_. Exocoetus evolans, _Linn_. Sardinella leiogaster, _Cuv. & Val_. lineolata, _Cuv. & Val_. Saurus myops, _Val_. Malacopterygii (Sub-brachiati). _Pleuronectes, L._ Malacopterygii (Apoda). _Muraena_. Lophobranchi. _Syngnathus, L._ Plectognathii. Tetraodon ocellatus, _W. Benn_. argyropleura, _E. Bennett_. argentatus, _Blyth_. Balistes biaculeatus, _W. Benn_. Triacanthus biaculeatus, _W. Benn_. II. CARTILAGINOUS _Squabus, L._ Pristis antiquorum, _Lath._ cuspidatus, _Lath._ pectinatus, _Lath._ _Raia, L._ NOTE (A.) INSTANCES OF FISHES FALLING FROM THE CLOUDS IN INDIA. _From the Bombay Times_, 1856. Dr. Buist, after enumerating cases in which fishes were said to have been thrown out from volcanoes in South America and precipitated from clouds in various parts of the world, adduces the following instances of similar occurrences in India. "In 1824," he says, "fishes fell at Meerut, on the men of Her Majesty's 14th Regiment, then out at drill, and were caught in numbers. In July, 1826, live fish were seen to fall on the grass at Moradabad during a storm. They were the common cyprinus, so prevalent in our Indian waters. On the 19th of Fe
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