FAMILY, V— CTPKIXID^. 595 



2. Danio spinosns, D. 15-16, A. 19-20. L. 1. 55-65. No barbels, or a short rostral pair. One or two 

 spines on the margin of the orbit. Burma. 



3. Banio Malaharicus, D. 12-15, A. 15-19, L. 1. 35-37. Rostral barbels, sometimes rudimentary 

 maxillary ones. South Malabar. 



4. Banio wquipinnatus, D. 12-14, A. 14-16, L. 1. 32-31. Rostral and maxillary barbels. Himalayas, 

 Assam, Tenasserim, the Deccan. 



5. Banio dangila, D. 11-13, A. 17-18. Two pairs of long barbels. Bengal, Behar, DarjeeUng. 



6. Banio cJirysops, D. 13, A. 18. No barbels. Bengal. 



7. Banio Neilgh.erriensis, D. 12-14, A. 13-14, L. 1. 35-37. Rostral and sometimes maxillary barbels. 

 Neilgberry Hills, Madras. 



8. Banio rerio, D. 9, A. 15-16, L. 1. 26-28. Long rostral and usually maxillary barbels. Blue bands. 

 Bengal and Coromandel coast as low as Masulij^atani. 



9. Banio alholineatus, D. 9, A. 13-15, L. 1. 31-33. Two pairs of long barbels. A scarlet horizontal 

 band. Movilmein. 



10. Banio nigrofasciatus, D. 9, A. 13, L. 1. 30-32. A maxillary pair of barbels. Blue bands. Pegu 

 and Moulmein. 



1. Danio devario, Plate CL, fig. 4. 



Cyprintis devario, Ham. Buch. Fish. Ganges, pp. 341, 393, pi. 6, f. 94 : Cuv. and Val. xvi, p. 446. 



Perilampus devario and osteograj^hus, McClell. Ind. Cyp. pp. 288, 289, 391, 392, pi. 45, f. 2 and 3 

 (eri'oneously numbered pi. 56, f. 9) ; Cuv. and Val. xvi, p, 468. 



Leuciscus devario, Cuv. and Val. xvi, p. 446 ; Bleeker, Beng. p. 66. 



Leucisms osteograplnis, Bleeker, Beng. p. 68. 



Bevario Macclellandii and cyanotcenia, Bleeker, Prod. Cyp. p. 283. 



Banio devario, Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 284 ; Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 377. 



Bonkuaso, Ooriah : Bebari, Beng. : Ba-bali and Buh-ri-e, N.W. Prov. : Khaii-ge, Maal-le and Pur-ran-dali, 

 Punj. : Chay-la-ree, Sind. 



B. iii, D. 18-19 (T3?Te). P- 13, V. 8, A. 18-19 (ttt^ts), C. 19, L. 1. 41-48, L. tr. 11/5. 



Length of head 5 to 5|-, of caudal 4, height of body oj to 3^ (or even 4) in the total length. Eyes — 

 diameter 1/3 of length of head, 3/4 of a diameter from end of snout, Ij diameters apart. Posterior extremity 

 of maxilla extends to beneath the anterior margin of the orbit ; lower jaw the longer. Third suborbital bone 

 broad. Barbels — absent. Fins — dorsal commences slightly anteriorly to the anal, and midway between the 

 anterior margin of the orbit and the base of the caudal. Caudal lunated. Bateral-line — 2? rows of scales 

 between it and the base of the ventral fin : 16 rows before the base of the doi'sal fin. Colours — greenish 

 superiorly, silvery white inferiorly. The anterior part of the body is reticulated in its centre by steel-blue 

 lines, divided from one another by narrow vertical yellow bands. Three bluish lines, divided by yellow ones, 

 are continued backwards to the caudal fin, where the two lower amalgamate, and passing upwards become lost 

 on the superior half of the caudal fin. 



Habitat. — Sind, Orissa, Bengal, N.W. Provinces, Deccan, Punjab and Assam, attaining 4 inches in 

 length. 



2. Danio spinosus, Plate CL, fig. 5. 



Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 621. 



B. iii, D. 15-16(VI), P. 13, V. 7, A. 19-20( j-^'xt). C. 19, L. 1. 55-65, L. tr. 12-14/4. 



Length of head 5 to 5j, of caudal 5, height of body 3 to 35 in the total length. Eyes — diameter 3 to 

 3-5- in the length of head, 1 diameter from end of snout and also apart. Body strongly compressed : a slight 

 concavity over the occiput. Lower jaw prominent. Third suborbital bone wide and touches the preopercuhir 

 ridge. In adults there is a sharp spine directed forwards above the anterior superior margin of the orbit, and 

 a second broader and blunter before the centre of the eye on the preorbital. In immature examples these spines 

 are equally sharp. Barbels — a small rostral pair. Fins — the dorsal commences midway between the posterior 

 extremity of the orbit and the base of tlie caudal, its first five or six rays are in advance of the anal. Pectoral 

 as long as the head. Caudal lunate. Bateral-line — 3i- rows of scales between it and the base of the ventral 

 fin. Colours — silvery, with an ill-defined lateral band, and some vertical yellow lines in the anterior half of the 

 body. Dorsal and anal grayish, with reddish margins anteriorly. In the immature there is a dark humeral 

 spot, and a steel-blue lateral band goes to the centre of the caudal fin, which has a scarlet stripe along the last 

 half of its centre. Some examples have a wide blue central band, and two narrow parallel ones superiorly, and 

 the same number inferiorly, they are divided by yellow ground colour. 



Habitat. — Burma ; attaining at least 4 inches in length. 



3. Danio Malabaricus, Plate CL, fig. 7. 



? Chela alburna, Heckel, Fische Kaschmir, p. 390, c. fig. 



Perilampus Malabaricus, Canarcnsis and Mysoricus, Jerdon, M. J. L. and S. 1849, p. 325. 



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