200 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD P/IODUCT/O.VS. 



on the base of the tail. Body vertically barred with 12 cr 14 black lines. Soft 

 dorsal with a narrow black margin. Caudal with a black and white posterior edge. 

 Anal with a black submarginal line. The disposition and white margining of the 

 black bands is variable. 

 The Nicobars. 



C. picTus, Forsk. 

 Nga-gyeng-kyouk. 



B. vi. ; D. a ; P. 15 ; V. i ; A. ttt^^ ; C. 17. 



Teeth brnsh-like. Snout with a black band. A dark band descends from in 

 front of the dorsal through the eye to the chest. The body is traversed anteiiorly 

 and superiorly by numerous black lines (8), which ascend from the head to tlie dorsal, 

 and it is traversed posteriorly and interiorly by similar descending linos, impinging 

 at right angles on the lowest of the asceutUng ones. A black baud involves the 

 posterior portion of the body. A crescentic black band anteriorly convex and a 

 subterminal linear one on the tail. 



The Audamans. 



C. VAGABUNBUS, L. 



Pah-noo-dah. Andamans. 



B. vi.; D. *j-*f; P. 15; V. i; A.^tt^^; C. 17. 



Teeth brush-like. Dorsal spines moderate, with deeply notched web. Colour 

 markings much as in C. pictus, but the anterior ascending lines are less numerous 

 (6), and the posterior descending ones more marked and numerous than in that 

 species {vide Day's Plates, xxvi. f. 6, xxvii. f. 1). The black ocular baud white- 

 edged. Dorsal and anal fins black-margined. Tail banded as in C. piitus. 



The Andamans. 



C. AURIGA, Forsk. 



B. vi.; D. *i-4^f; P. 15; V. i; A. ^Stt ; C. 17. 



Teeth brush-like. Ocular band brown, edged anteriorl}- with white. The 

 linear body-markings as in C. pictus, only the ascending lines are reduced to 5 and 

 the descending to 6, followed by three angular bands. A prominent black ocellus 

 on the soft dorsal. Anal with a fine sulimarginal band, with a white outer edge. 

 Upper and hind margin of anal edged with black. '1 wo dark lines on the caudal 

 inclose a crescentic area anteriorly convex. 



The Nicobars. 



C. LUNULA, Lacep. 



C. bioeellatus, Cuv. et Val. 



B. vi.; D. ^V^; P. 19; V.i; A. ,^^5_; C 17. 



Ocular band of a deep chestnut, edged with white and wider than the orbit. 

 A second brown liand passes from the first five dorsal spines aiul unites with the 

 occipital one. A third band from fifth and sixth dorsal spines gradually widens and 

 goes as low as the base of the pectoral fin. A band along the base of the soft dorsal 

 passes over the free portion of the tail. Caudal with a dark band in its posterior 

 third. Dorsal and anal with a dark edge, margined with white. In the young the 

 ocular band is edged with white and a wliite-edged black ocellus occurs on the soft 

 dorsal. 



The Andamans. 



C. MELANOTUs, Bl. Schn. 

 Nga-hpa-kheh (fide Gazetteer). 



B. vi.; D. 55 ; P. 15; V. i; A. A; C. 17. 



Colour yellowish, with a narrow black ocular band descending to the che.st. 

 The upper fourth of the body stained with black and ascending black lines throiigli 

 each row of scales. A black band at the base of the tail interrupted in the middle. 



