igig.] B. L. Chaudhuri : Fish from Burma. 279 



type in colouration and some other particulars. The ground 

 colour of the body of the longer fish is greyish- white. The ob- 

 liquely transverse dark bands anterior to the dorsal fin are very 

 narrow, but those below the fin are broader and posterior to the 

 dorsal fin the stripes are replaced by irregular blotches. The 

 ocellus at the upper corner of the root of the caudal fin is intensely 

 black. The colour of the two limiting bands of alternate black 

 and white round the free border of the caudal fin is somewhat 

 diffused. In the smaller specimen the colour of the upper side of 

 the head is not marbled, as is usually the case in the species, but 

 is of a uniform dark brown, and the ground colour of the bod}" is 

 dirty brown to black, There are no transverse stripes on the sides 

 in front of the dorsal fin. Below the dorsal fin and in front of 

 the pelvic fins there are some dark but faint transverse stripes, 

 very narrow and of diffused colouration. There are no transverse 

 stripes behind the dorsal fin. The caudal fin has two' bright white 

 bands, both broad, one at the root and the other just interior to 

 the terminal black band round the free end of the fin. The ocellus^ 

 at the upper corner of the root of the caudal fin is iust as in the 

 longer fish. The dorsal fins in both the specimens bear three black 

 bands made up of black dots. This fish may belong to a distinct 

 race if not a new species. 



Distribution. — Egar stream, between Renging and Rotung, 

 the Dihang River near Yembung and the Sirpo River near Renging 

 in the Abor country; mountain streams in the Garo Hills, Assam; 

 and similar streams near Tanja, Putao, in Upper Burma. 



Genus Nemachcilus, Hasselt. 

 Nemacheilus botia (Hamilton Buchanan). 



1822. Cobitis botia, Hamilton Buchanan, Accf. Fish. Ganges, pp. 350, 394.. 



1822. Cobitis bilturio, Id., ibid., pp. 358 and 395. 



1846. Cobitis bilturio, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XVIII, 



P- 35- 

 1846. Cobitis botia, Id., ibid., p. 72. 

 1839. Cobitis hiiiiHcronata, M'Clelland, Asiat. Researches, XIX, pp. 304 



and 433, pi. li, fig. 4. 

 1839. Cobitis scatiirigina. Id., ibid., pp. 308 and 443, pi. liii, Hg. 6. 

 1839. Cobitis ocellata, Id., ibid., p. 436, pi. li, fig. 6. 

 1839. Somileptes unispina, Swainson, Lardner s Cab. Cyclop. Nat. Hist^ 



i^Fisli. Ampli. Rep.), II, p. 311- 

 184J. Cobites mooreli, Sykes, Trans. Zool. Soc, II, p- 366. 

 1853. Cobitis botia, Bleeker, Verli. Bat. Gen., XXV, p. 70. 

 1853. Cobitis bilturio. Id., ibid. 



1863. Cobitis botia. Bleaker, Versl. Akad, Amsterdam, XV, p. 4-- 

 1868. Nemachilus iiropJithalmus, Gilnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VII,. 



p. 3^8. 



1868. Nemachilus botia. Id., ibid., p. 349. 



1869. Nemacheilus botia, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 382. 



1877. Nemacheilus botia. Day, Fish. Ind., p. 614, pi. clvi, fig. 5. 



1877. Nemaciieilus aureus (var.). Id., ibid., p. 614, pi. clvi, fig. 4. 



1889. Nemachilus botius. Id., Faun. Brit. India, Fish., I, p. 227. 



1893. Nemachilus botia, Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 6), XII,. 



p. 203. 

 1918. Nemachilus botia, .\nnandale, Rec. Ind. Mus.. XIV, p. 35- 



