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dorsal commences slightly in advance of the ventral. Caudal 

 lobed, the lower slightly the longer. Colout brownish, with 12 

 bands across the back, and the same number of blotches along the 

 lateral line; two rows of blotches along the dorsal, and three 

 across the anal fin. 



Hob. Burma, and the eastern portion of Sumatra. Col. Tickell 

 says it attains a foot in length in the hill-streams of Burma. 



3. Genus SOMILEPTES (Swainson), Bleeker. 



Body elongate and compressed, dorsal profile nearly horizontal ; 

 snout elongate. Eyes prominent. Six barbels four on the 

 snout, and two on the upper jaw. A small erectile, bifid, sub- 

 orbital ^pine. Dorsal fin inserted slightly behind the ventral ; 

 caudal entire. 



Geographical Distribution. From 'Orissa through Bengal to Assam . 



236. (1.) Somileptes gongota. (Fig. 79.) 



Cobitis gongota, Ham. Buch. Fish. Gang. pp. 351, 394. 

 Somileptes gongota, Day, Fish. India, p. 608, pi. civ, fig. 2 (see 

 synon.). 



Assam. 



B. iii. D. 10(2/8). P, 10. V. 7. A. 7(2/5). C. 16. 



Length of head 5| in the total length. Eyes rather behind 



the middle of the length of the head. Snout with its upper edge 



rather concave, it and the rest of the head covered with tine warty 



excrescences. Barbels rather short, extending nearly halfway to 



Fig. 79. Somileptes gongota. 



below the eyes. Fins caudal entire. Colour an undulating 

 band along the side of the body, giving off vertical bars towards 

 the back, or else oblique blotches with light edges descending from 

 the back or placed irregularly on the body. Dorsal and caudal 

 fins with transverse rows of blackish dots. 

 Hob. Beerbhoom, Assam, and Khasi hills. 



