CYPBINID.E. COBITIDIN^:. 21 



from end of snout. Barrels eight. Fins the cnudal has sharp 

 lobes. Colour body in the adult with irregular and partly 



Fig. 11. Botia gcto. 



confluent brown cross bands, which enclose variously sized round 

 yellowish or bluish spots. Ventral fin with two, the other fins 

 and each lobe of the caudal with three black cross bands. In 

 the youncj the bands on the body form arches, four or live in 

 number, passing over a dark vertical band or mark. 



Hah. From Sind, through the Punjab, Himalayas, valley of the 

 Ganges, Jumna, and Sone rivers to Assam. 



232. (4.) Botia almorhae. 



Botia almorhae, Gray, Zool. Misc. -1831, p. 8; Day, Fish. India, 

 p. 607, pi. cliv, fig. 5 (see synon.). 



B.iii. D. 11-12(2/9-10). P. 14. V. 8. A. 7-8 (2/5-6). C. 19. 



Length of head 4|, of caudal fin 5, height of body 5 to 5 in the 

 total length. Eyes rather behind the middle of the length of the 

 head. Barbels eight. Colour body reticulated with grey oh a 

 yellow ground; fins yellow; the dorsal, pectoral, and anal with 

 four transverse dark bands, the pectoral and each caudal lobe with 

 five. Sometimes examples are vertically banded, each band being 

 reticulated. 



Hob. Kashmir, Almora, and Khasi hills; attaining 6 inches 

 in length. 



233. (5.) Botia berdmorei. 



860, . 166. 



(see 



Syiicrossus berdmorei, Blyth, J. A. S. E. xxix, 1860, p. 166. 

 Botia berdmorei, Day, Fish. India, p. 607, pi. cliv, fig. 3 



synon.). 

 Nga-tha-lay-doh and Shoay-zagay, Burmese. 



B. iii. D. 13-15(2/11-13). P. 13. V. 8. A. 7(2/5). C. 17. 

 Length of head 4| to 5, of caudal fin 5, height of body 5 to 5| in 

 the total length. Eyes in about the middle of the length of the 

 head. Barbels eight, the four rostral united at the base. Colour 

 buff, with 10 or 11 vertical darkish bands, extending from the back 



