thermometer stood at 112 deg.  Fahr., and as they belonged to a carnivorous genus, they must have found prey living in the same high temperature.—­Journ.  Asiatic Soc.  Beng. vol. vi. p. 465.  Fishes have been observed in a hot spring at Manilla which raises the thermometer to 187 deg., and in another in Barbary, the usual temperature of which is 172 deg.; and Humboidt and Bonpland, when travelling in South America, saw fishes thrown up alive from a volcano, in water that raised the temperature to 210 deg., being two degrees below the boiling point.  PATTERSON’S Zoology.  Pt. ii p. 211; YARRELL’S History of British Fishes, vol. i.  In. p. xvi.]

List of Ceylon Fishes.

I. OSSEOUS.

Acanthopterygii.

Perca argentea, Bennett. 
Apogon roseipinnis, Cuv. & Val. 
  Zeylonicus, Cuv. & Val.
  thermalis, Cuv. & Val. 
Ambassis thermalis, Cuv. & Val. 
Serranus biguttatus, Cuv. & Val. 
  Tankervillae, Benn.
  lemniscatus, Cuv. & Val. 
  Sonneratii, Cuv. & Val.
  flavo-ceruleus, Lacep.
  marginalis, Cuv. & Val. 
  Boelang, Cuv. & Val. 
Serranus faveatus, Cuv. & Val.
  angularis, Cuv. & Val.
  punctulatas, Cuv. & Val. 
Diacope decem-lineatus, Cuv. & Val.
  spilura, Benn.
  xanthopus, Cuv. & Val. 
Mesoprion annularis, Cuv. & Val. 
Holocentrus orientale, Cuv. & Val.
  spinifera, Cuv. & Val.
  argenteus, Cuv. & Val. 
Upeneus taeniopterus, Cuv. & Val. 
  Zeylonicus, Cuv. & Val. 
  Russeli, Cuv. & Val.
  cinnabarinus, Cuv. & Val. 
Platycephalus punctatus, Cuv. & Val.
  scaber, Linn.
  tuberculatus, Cuv. & Val.
  serratus, Cuv. & Val. 
Pterois volitans, Gm.
  muricata, Cuv. & Val. 
Diagramma cinerascens, Cuv. & Val. 
  Blochii, Cuv. & Val.
  poeciloptera, Cuv. & Val. 
  Cuvieri, Benn. 
  Sibbaldi, E.  Benn. 
Lobotes crate, Cuv. & Val. 
Scolopsides bimaculatus, Rupp. 
Amphiprion Clarkii, J.  Benn. 
Dascyllus aruanus, Cuv. & Val. 
Glyphisodon Rahti, Cuv. & Val. 
  Brownrigii, Benn.
Sparus Hardwickii, J.  Benn. 
Pagrus longifilis, Cuv. & Val. 
Lethrinus opercularis, Cuv. & Val.
  fasciatus, Cuv. & Val.
  fraenatus, Cuv. & Val.
  cythrurus, Cuv. & Val.
  cinereus, Cuv. & Val. 
Smaris balteatus, Cuv. & Val. 
Caesio coerulaureus, Lacep. 
Gerres oblongus, Cuv. & Val. 
Chaetodon vagabundus, Linn. 
  Sebanus, Cuv. & Val. 
  Layardi, Blyth.
  xanthocephalus, E.  Bennett.
  guttatissimus, E.  Benn.