Pa per.
•taken in large numbers, dried, and font up the country f(k
fale.
A s in g u la r apodal fiih found near Dacca is1 about three
,feet long, head fmall, and much deprefled ; back greatly elevated,
near the lower part a firigle fin of five rays, Ventral begins not
remote from the mouth, unites Avith that of the tail, which
ends rounded; color a yellowilh white, dark on the back.
The genus of Silurus is extremely numerous-; among them
are feme undefcribed, and very curious. I mult acknowlege
my obligations to Nathaniel Middleton, Efq. for permitting me
to have copies made from his numerous collection ; many are
as yet not afcertained.
A mong «the known ipecies are feveral curious 'Lepturi, one
of the characters of which is the tail confifting o f a long brittle.
Some Qphidrums, among them is the Ophidium aculeatum, Gm.
Linn. iii. p. 1174. Bloch, v. p. 58. tab. clix.
T here iis a Shark taken in the gulph o f Bengal o f a new
hind, with a iharp and Sender nofe. I 'conclude with another
Shark, which is to me a new difcovery in the Indian ocean; the
Squalis Pri/Hs, yet Pliny was not unacquainted with it, who
calls it, Maximum animal in indi.co Mari, ft was reprefented
to him as o f the .length of two hundred cubits ; the faCt is, it
does not exceed that o f fifteen feet.
T he productions o f the fociety are printed at Calcutta, and
on paper the manufacture o f the Country. I will not be pofitive
th at th e y are printed,omthat, made from the Crotolaria juncea,
Trends Ehret. tab. .47. mentioned' in Phil. Trans, lx iv . p. 99.
w h ich is fown .before the rains begin, and gathered in December’,