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a a new genus of Fossil Echinida, Calcutta Journal of Nat. Hist. vol. i, p.155. {183} Simia Hylobates agilis. {186} Raised on posts. {193} See Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol,--Feb. 1838. {205a} Eastern Thibet. {205b} For this and similar figures, see {212} {205c} _Barbus hexagonolepis_, Asiatic Res. xix.--Pl. f. 3, pp.170, 313, 336. {205d} Cyprinus Semiplotus As. Res. xix.--Pl. 37. f. 2, pp.274, 346. {206a} Opsarius gracilus, As. Res. vol. xix. {206b} See {35} {212} Such figures may be thus read. Temp. of the air 60 degrees Fah., that of boiling water 204.5 degrees. {217a} Relative heights. {217b} These figures refer to Woollaston's thermetrical barometer. {221} Centropus nigrorufus. {227} _Oreinus progastus_, As. Res. vol. xix. pl. 40, fig. 4. {349} Referred to by the Author as an Anthemidioid, and on one occasion as _Santonica achilleoidea_. {383} Schizothorax Edeniana, Cal. Journ. Nat. Hist. Vol. II. p.579. {390a} Schizothoracinae. {390b} Cobitis marmorata, see Calcutta Journal of Nat. Hist. Vol. II, p.560, where the Fishes collected by Mr. Griffith in these parts are described. {404} Salmo orientalis, Calcutta, Journ. Nat. Hist. Vol. III. p.283. Throughout Southern Asia, including the Punjab, and both plains and peninsula of India properly so called, no species exists of the trout family or Salmonidae. Their discovery in the streams descending from the northern declivity of the Hindoo-koosh distinguishes that chain as the southern boundary or limit of the family. It is also remarkable that the Hindoo-koosh should likewise be the exclusive province of a numerous group of small scaled Cyprinidae, met with only in the rivers of Affghanistan, consisting of the genera, Schizothorax, Racoma, and Oreinus, of which one or two species only have been found to extend south along the plateau of the Himalaya, as far as 27 degrees N., while the bulk of the family is confined to 34 degrees N. See Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. Vol. II. p.560 t. xv. {417} This alludes to a sketch of the valley. {418} Melia. {435} For the particulars of this attack in which Mr. Griffith nearly lost his life, the reader is referred to extracts from private correspondence. {450} These sketches, together with the author's further views on the subject, will be more appropriately incorporated in the second part of his Posthumous Papers, entitled 'Icones Plantarum Asiaticarum,' and 'Notula
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