548 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Indialosa Hekee and Myebs, Lingnan Sci. Journ., No. 10, p. 238, 1931. (Type, 

 Clupanodon manniinna Buchauan-Hamilton, oithotypic. ) 



Mouth subterminal or inferior, transverse, cleft forming an angle, 

 toothless. Maxillary slender, terminally slightly expanded and 

 curved downward. One supplemental maxillary. Scales 45 to 75 in 

 longitudinal series, 16 to 25 transversely. Vertebrae 44 to 4G. Dor- 

 sal rays 14 to 17, with basal scaly sheath, last ray not prolonged. 

 Anal rays 22 to 28. Ventrals with 8 rays, below or in advance of 

 dorsal origin. 



Rivers of India and Burma. Mouth as in Nematolosa but differs 

 in not having last dorsal ray prolonged. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



o\ Depth 2 to 214 ; scales 45 to 47 in lateral series modesta 



a*. Depth 2% to 3% ; scales 55 to 65 in lateral series manminna 



GONIALOSA MODESTA (Day) 



Chatoessus modestus Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869, p. 622 (type lo- 

 cality: Bassein River high as Eeu-gay-gyee Lake, Burma) ; Fishes of India, 

 pt. 4, p. 633, pi. 160, fig. 1, 1878 (Eeu-gay-gyee Lake and Moulmein) ; Fauna 

 British India, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 386, 1S89. 



Gonialosa modesta Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 315, 1917 

 (Burma). 



Depth 2 to 2V2; head 3l^ to 4. Snout shorter than eye, which 

 3 to 31/^ in head ; maxillary reaches front eye edge. 



Scales 45 to 47 in medial lateral series; 16 to 18 transversely. 

 Ventral scutes 17 to 19 + 9 to 12. 



D. 14 to 17; A. 24 to 28; ventrals below or in advance of dorsal 

 origin. 



Usually a dark humeral spot. Length to 100 mm. (Regan.) 



Burma. 



GONIALOSA MANMINNA (Buchanan-Hamilton) 



Clupanodon manminna Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 247, 249, 

 38.3, 1822 (type locality: Fresh-water branches of Ganges). 



Chatoessus manmina Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. 114, 1848 (com- 

 piled). 



Chatoessus manminna Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 633, pi. 160, fig. 2, 1878 

 (Sind, Ganges, Jumna, Brahmaputra, Mahannadi, Assam) ; Fauna Brit. In- 

 dia, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 386, 1889. 



Oonialosa tnanmina Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 19, p. 315, 1917 

 (North India and Assam). 



? Clupanodon cortius Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 249, 383, 1822 

 (type locality: The Brahmaputra near Goyalpara). 



Chatoessus cortius Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. 115, 1848 

 (copied). — GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. British Mus., vol. 7, p. 410, 1868 (Bengal; 

 Cachar). 



Depth 2% to 3l^ ; head 3% to 414. Snout shorter than eye, wliich 

 3 to 31/2 in head ; maxillary not or barely reaching eye. 



