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BANDED SNAKE-HEAD. 



A species of ophiocephalus with a singularly variegated 

 marking is occasionally brought to the bazars. The up- 

 per parts are dark olive green, and above the lateral line 

 the body is crossed with from fifteen to eighteen dark 

 bands. The lower parts are tinged with rose on the 

 sides, and banded with dark lines so as to meet the up- 

 per bands on the lateral line, and form an obtuse angle. 

 It rarely grows a foot long. 



I sent Mr. Blyth a specimen of either this species or 

 the preceding, and he wrote : " This ophiocephalus is, 

 I believe, not named, but I have before had it from 

 Goalpara." The fin rays are, 



D. 33: P. 15: V. 5: A. 25 : C. 11. 



SMALL SNAKE-HEAD. 



A smaller species of ophiocephalus, the natives call 



At Tavoy I have noticed a fish resembling a species of 

 ophiocephalus, but of which I have no notes. 



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SMALL-SCALED FISH, 



The Microhptes, or small scaled fish, including the 

 other, tribes with spinous rays in the dorsal fins, do not 

 appear to be very numerous ; but they are represented in 

 our waters by Indian mackerel or tunny, ophidians, long- 

 snouts, dories, pomphrets, ribon-fish, flat heads, gobies, 

 amblyopus-suckers, and periophthalmi- 



TUNNY. 



A fish of the mackerel tribe, often called Indian mac- 

 kerel, or Indian tunny, belonging to the genus thyn- 

 nus, is not uncommon at Tavoy. 

 Thynnus. 



OPHIDIAN. 



This fish is often described as resembling a small eel, 

 but it has strong spines on the back, and before the anal 

 fin. 



