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Length of caudal peduncle ... ... ... io'38 



Width of caudal peduncle ... ... ... 3-8 



Length of longest rays of caudal fin ... ... ... 17 



Height of root of caudal fin ... ... ... 8*3 



Total length without caudal fin in mm. ... ... 106 



The colour of the head and of the sides is dark brown ; the 

 ventral surface is dull white. In the young there are transversely 

 oblique stripes of a deeper shade on the light brown or grey colour 

 on the sides of the body. The pectoral fin is alternately variegated 

 in bright white and black broad bands with an annular white zone 

 round the black root of the fin ; the caudal fin is alternately banded 

 in white and black in their transverse stripes. There is no ocellus 

 in the upper corner of the root of the caudal fin ; the extreme ends 

 of all the rays of the dorsal and anal fins are tipped with pure 

 white. 



This is the first time that any fish belonging to the genus 

 Channa is reported from the Indian continent. The only species 

 hitherto known from the Indian Region is Channa orientalis, Bloch 

 and Schneider,^ which is found in Ceylon and China. Two other 

 names in the same genus (C. ocellata, Peters* and C. formosana, 

 Jordan and Hvermann''') are in all probabilit}^ synonyms of one 

 another and priority decides for C. ocellata. Ophicephalus apus, 

 Canestrini/ is in reality a Channa and differs very little from C. 

 orientalis. Channa hurmanica differs widely from these two 

 hitherto known species in proportions, in the number of rays in the 

 fins, in the arrangement and number of scales in the lateral line 

 and other parts, as well as in colouration. 



There are altogether four specimens in the collection, two of 

 which, measuring 106 mm. and 79 mm. in length, are from the 

 bed of the Sen-Bin-Ti, which further down becomes the Nam-Ti- 

 Sang : the other two measure 45 mm. and 43 mm. in length ; one is 

 from a hill stream in the Putao Plains (Hkamti Long). The larger 

 of these two is very much damaged. The specimen 106 mm. long 

 from the river Sen-Bin-Ti is the holotype, and is entered in the 

 register of the Zoological Survey of India under No. F 9755/1. 



Genus Badis, Bleeker, 

 Badis badis (Hamilton Buchanan). 



1822. Labyus badis, Hamilton Buchanan, Acct. Fish. Ganges, pp 70 and 



368, pi. XXV, fig. 23. 



1853. -Badis bi<chanani, Bleeker, Verli. Bat. Gen , XXV, p. 106, pi. ii, fig. 3. 



1861. Badis bitc/iaiiaiii, (iiinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mtis., \\\, p. 367. 



1875. Badis bitcliaiiani, Day, Fisli. liid., p. 128, pi xxxi, fig. 6. 



1876. Badis biichanaui, Bleeker, Arch. Neevl. Sc. Nat., XL p. 318. 



1877. Galpitri (Labnis badis), Hamilton Buchanan, Stat. Acct. Bengal XX, 



p. 40. 



1 Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Jcli., p. 496, pi. xc, fig. 2 (i8ot). 

 ^ Peters, Monat. Preuss. Akad. W^ssen. Berlin, 1864, p. 392 (1865). 

 •''' Jordon and Evermann, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XXV, pp. 316, 331 and 332, 

 fig. II (1903). 



♦ Canestrini, Archiv. Zool. A)iat. Fisiol. Geiiova, I, p. 77, pi. iv, fig. 7 (1861). 



