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{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, ent.i.tled 'Icones Plantarum Asiaticarum,' and 'Notulae ad plantas Asiaticas.'
{479} Nearly allied to _Cobitis chlorosoma_, As. Res. Vol. xix, pl. 52, f. 3.
{481} This is an undescribed species if not an undescribed genus, and was by some mischance lost from the collections; it may properly, when described, receive the name of the author, who was the first to notice so remarkable a form.
{484} It is chiefly important as a generic, not as a specific character, see _November 1st_.
{517} The Editor is indebted to the kindness of Mr. Curnin, not only for the note with which this table of heights and lat.i.tudes is introduced, but also for the construction of the table itself from the results of 437 observations for lat.i.tudes alone, and an equal number almost for alt.i.tudes.
