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broad dark bauds may bear light streaks of variable number, 

 forming complete or incomplete hoops. These narrow white 

 bands may be broken into small elegant dots. This beautiful 

 pattern may be on a background of a pale pink or a deep 

 yellow. These two primary types of dark and yellow bands 

 are broader on the sides of the head and are directed 

 obliquely forwards. On the upper surface of the head, the 

 dark and yellow streaks form a trident mark. The posterior 

 part of the caudal peduncle may he clouded by a deep 

 bronze, which obscures occasionally the scheme of bands and 

 dots. The chest is somewhat greenish in freshly captured 

 specimens, fading almost into a white in the preserving 

 fluids. The fins are white and are barred, the caudal fin 

 bearing two entire and two to three interrupted stripes. 

 The whole scheme of striation on the body is suggestive 

 more of the zebra. 



Measurements in hundredths of total length without 

 caudal fin: — 



rum. 



Total length without caudal fin 70 



Depth of body 29'5 



Depth of caudal peduncle 17 T 



Length of head 28 - 5 



Depth of head 22'8 



Width of head behind eyes 11 -4 



Length of snout 15*7 



Diameter of orbit 5'7 



Width of interorbital space (measured over 



the arch of head) 14 - 2 



Width of interorbital space (measured across 



head) 9-5 



Width of mouth , 7T 



* Distance from tip of snout to anterior root of 



dorsal iin 57 - l 



Height of longest dorsal fin-ray 14 - 2 



Distance from tip of snout to anterior root of 



pectoral tin 28 - 5 



Longest pectoral fin-ray 18 - 5 



Distance from tip of snout to vent 74-2 



Distance from tip of snout to anterior root of 



ventral fin 62'9 



Longest ventral tin-ray 13"5 



Distance from snout to anterior root of anal fin 85*7 



Longest anal fin-ray 14"2 



Length of caudal peduncle I(v6 



Longest caudal fin-ray 25*7 



Height of loot of caudal fin 17'1 



Type-specimen. — There are eleven specimens in the collec- 

 tion. The type and four more examples are sent to the 

 British Museum and four presented to the Indian Museum. 

 The rest is kept iu the Central College Museum, Bangalore. 



