284 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XVI, 



J893. Danio aeqtiipinnatiis, Boulenger, Ann. Map. Nat. Hist. (ser. 6), 



XII, p. 20-v 

 1913. Danio aeqttipi)inatiis, Chaudhufi, Rec. Ind. Miis.. VIII, p. 252. 



1917. Danio aeqaipinnatus, Annandale, Note on Fisheries Inle Lake, p. 3. 



1918. Danio aequipinnatus, Id., Rec. I)id. Mits., XIV, pp. 35, 211. 



There is only one specimen, from a hill stream in the Putao 

 Plains, measuring 56 mm. There are a series of rows of small wart- 

 like beads on and aromid the chin and below the neck. The 

 body is more dusky than usual ; the colour appears to have faded 

 though some of the longitudinal stripes are conspicuous. There is 

 a round white blotch on the upper anterior corner of the opercle. 



Distribution. — The Himalayas (Darjiling) ; Assam (Garo Hills, 

 Naga Hills, Sadiya, Yembung) ; Burma (Tenasserim, vShan vStates) ; 

 Deccan; and Ceylon. 



Genus Channa, Gronovius. 



Channa burmanica, Chaudhuri, sp. n. 



(Plate XXn, figs. 4, 4a, 46). 



The body is round in front but is very much compressed be- 

 hind the vent, which is situated about the middle. The dorsal 

 profile from the anterior root of the dorsal fin slopes gently to the 

 snout. The ventral profile, which is more convex in the region of 

 the lower jaw than the upper, continues parallel to the dorsal 

 profile as far as the vent, behind which both profiles continue in a 

 straight line but converge towards the caudal peduncle, about the 

 middle of which there is a slight concavity in both. 



The height of the body at the anterior end of the dorsal fin is 

 contained six and a half times in the total length without the caudal 

 fin, and the width at the same region six and one-fourth times; 

 the height about the middle of the caudal peduncle is contained 

 i;en and a half times and the width at the same part twenty-six 

 and a half times in the total length. 



The head is wide and is greatly depressed ; its length is con- 

 tained nearly four times in the total length without the caudal 

 fin. The depth at the occiput is eight times and the width of the 

 head six and one- third times in the total length. The opening of the 

 mouth continues behind the orbit ; the length of the maxillary 

 is contained ten and three-fifth times and the width of the mouth 

 eight and five-sixth times in the total length. The e5'-es are 

 placed far forward ; the diameter of the orbit is equal to the length 

 of the snout and is contained five and three-fifth times in the 

 length of the head. The inter orbital space is very flat and 

 its width is twice as long as the length of the snout. There are 

 two nasal tubes over the tip of the snout, slightly longer than 

 half the diameter of the orbit. The gular plate is rather long and 

 narrow, rounded in front and notched behind, its length being 

 contained six and a half times in the total length and its breadth 

 five times in the width of the head. Round the gular plate on the 

 margin of the gill membranes, which continue close to the chin. 



