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Haplochilus panchax Gtli., 1860, Cat., VI, 311; Day, 1872, J. As. Soc, 259,-1873, Fish. Iiid. & 

 Burma, 270, — 1878, Ind. Fishes, 523, pi. 121, flg. 3 ; Mart., 1876, Preuss. Exp. ZooL, I, 232, 401 ; Beav., 

 1877, Fisli. Lid., 155 ; Jan., 1S82, Term. Fiiz., V, Huug. Nat. Mus., ext. p. 35. 



B. 6; D. 8; A. 16 ; V. 6; P. 14 ; LI. 30; Ltr. 8; Vert. 15+17. 



B. 5-6 ; D. 7-11 ; A. 15-17 ; V. 6 ; P. 15; LI. 31-34 ; Ltr. 9-10 (Day). 



Body compressed, caudal pedicel moderately deep, head depressed. Head 

 two sevenths of the length to the base of the caudal, crown flat. Snout 

 longer than the eye, broad, blunt. Mouth wide, horizontal, jaws nearly 

 equal. Outer series of teeth larger. Vomerine teeth present. Eye less 

 than snout, three fifths of forehead, two sevenths of head. Origin of dorsal 

 nearly above the end of the base of the anal. Ventrals small. 



Greenish to olive, light below. A silvery spot on the occiput. Basal 

 half of dorsal with a large spot of dark. Margins of fins lighter. Reaches 

 a length of more than three inches. 



Singapore ; East Indies ; Calcutta. 



Haplochilus lineatus. 



Plate III. Fig. 8, teeth. 



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Panchax lineatum^al., 1846, C. V. Poiss., XVIII, 381, pi. 546; Blkr., 1853, Ichth. Beng., 72,— 

 1860, Cypr., 487 ; Day, 1865, Fish. Malabar, 221. 



Aplocheilus vUlatui Jerd., 1849, Madras Jour. L. & Sc, XV, 330. 



Haplochilus lineatus Day, 1873, Fish. Ind. & Burm., 276, — 1878, Fish. lud., I, 522; Beav., 1877, Fish. 

 Ind., 156. 



B. 6 ; D. 7 ; A. 17 ; V. 6 ; P. 14 ; LI. 32 ; Ltr. 8 ; Vert. 14 + 17. 



B. 5-6 ; D. 8-9 ; A. 15-17 ; V. 6 ; P. 15 ; LI. 32-34 ; Ltr. 9. (Day.) 



Shape of body similar to that of the preceding. Head four and one 

 fourth, depth five to five and one fourth, and caudal four and one third times 

 in the total length. Eye three and one half times in the head, one and one 

 third times in the snout, and one and one half times in the forehead. Snout 

 broad, depressed, rounded ; jaws of equal length. Vomerine teeth present. 

 Third ray of ventral prolonged in a filament. Median rays of caudal longer, 

 fin rather pointed. 



Greenish to olive, with six to ten narrow transverse bands of darker on 

 the flank. On some the lighter centres of the scales form vittae. A black 

 spot at the base of the dorsal. Fins more or less marked with small spots. 

 A silver spot on the occiput. 



This species is said to attain the length of four inches. The specimens 

 examined were secured at Canara. 



