ny more interesting distributional facts will be evolved.

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Since receiving this note from Professor Huxley, the drawings in
question have been submitted to Dr. Gray, of the British Museum. That
eminent naturalist, after a careful analysis, has favoured me with the
following memorandum of the fishes they represent, numerically
contrasting them with those of China and Japan, so far as we are
acquainted with the ichthyology of those seas:--

CARTILAGINEA.

Ceylon. China and Japan.

Squali 12 15
Raiae 19 20
Sturiones 0 1

OSTINOPTERYGII.

Plectognathi.
tetraodontidae 10 21
balistidae 9 19
Lophobranchii.
syngnathidae 2 2
pegasidae 0 3
Ctenobranchii.
lophidae 1 3
Cyclopodi.
echeneidae 0 1
cyclopteridae 0 1
gobidae 7 35
Percini.
callionymidae 0 7
uranoscopidae 0 7
cottidae 0 13
triglidae 11 37
polynemidae 12 3
mullidae 1 7
perecidae 26 12
berycidae 0 5
sillaginidae 3 1
sciaenidae 19 13
haemullinidae 6 12
serranidae 31 38
theraponidae 8 20
cirrhitidae 0 2
maenidiae 37 25
sparidae 16 17
acanthuridae 14 6
chaetodontidae 25 21
fistularidae 2 3
Periodopharyngi.
mugilidae 5 7
anabantidae 6 15
pomacentridae 10 11
Pharyngognathi.
labridae 16 35
scomberesocidae 13 6
blenniidae 3 8
Scomberina.