282 CYPRINID-E. 



bels generally four, frequently two, or all rudimental or entirely 

 absent. Suborbitals broad. Gill-rakers very short ; psoudobrauchia). 

 Pharyngeal teeth 5.3. 2 — 2 .3.5, uncinate. 

 East-Indian continent and Ceylon. 



1. Danio dangila. 



Cyprinus dangila, Ham. Buch. Fish. Gang. p. .'321. 



Peril.ampus reticulatus, M'Clell. Ind. Cypr. pp. 290, .'397, tab. 45. i^'^. 1. 



Danio dangila, Bleek. Atl. IchtJiyol. Cypr. p. 29 (name only). 



D. 13. A. 17. ., 



Caudal fin subtruncate. The height of the body is more than the 

 length of the head, and two-sevenths of the total (without caudal). 

 Four barbels, the lower being about as long as the head. Sides 

 with reticulated narrow blue lines. 



Rocky streams in Behar. 



2. Danio lineolatus. 



Leuciscus lineolatus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1859, May. 

 D. 14. A. 16. L. lat. 32-33. L. transv. 6|/3. 

 Barbels four, the upper as long as the eye, the lower rudimental. 

 The height of the body is contained thrice and one-third in the total 

 length (without caudal), the length of the head four times. Sides 

 of the body with thi'ee straight bluish bands, separated from each 

 other by whitish lines, the middle dark band being the broadest, and 

 running to the end of the middle caudal rays. 

 Sikkim. 



a-c. From 2 to 3 inches long. Sikkim. From the Collection of 

 Messrs. von Schlagintweit. 



3. Danio micronema. 



? Perilanipus mysoricus, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. ^- Sc. 1849, xv. 



p. 325. 

 Danio lineolatu ,, Bleek. Mem. Soc. Holl. Haarlem, 18G4, Ceylon, p. 19 



tab. 4. fig. 3 (not Blyth). 

 micronema, Bleek. I. c. p. 21. fig. 2. 



D. 12-14. A. 15-17. L. lat. 34-37. L. transv. 8|/3. 



Four barbels, the upper being scarcely half as long as the eye, 

 whilst the lower are quite rudimental (and, probably, are sometimes 

 entirely absent). The height of the body is contained from twice 

 and three -fifths to thrice and a half in the total length (without 

 caudal), the length of the head one-fourth. Sides of the body with 

 straight bluish bands, the middle of which is broadest, more distinct 

 on the tail than on the trunk, and extending to the end of the 

 middle caudal rays. 



Ce5'lon ; Indian peninsula. 



a. Fine specimen, 3 inches long. Southern Ceylon. Purchased of 

 Mr, Cuming. 



