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Colour reddish brown, with 12 to 16 irregular darkish bands 

 descending from the back and ending in dark spots below the 

 lateral line; 4 to 6 oblique bauds on the dorsal fin; 6 to 8 

 irregular vertical bars on the caudal, which has a black ocellus on 

 the upper half of its base. 

 Hob. Tenasseriin. 



247. (4.) Nemachilus botius. 



Cobitis botia, Ham. Such. Fish. Ganges, pp. 350, 394. 

 Nemacheilus botia, Day, Fish. India, p. 614, pi. clvi, fig 1 . 5 (see synon.). 

 Sil-turi and Balli-potiah, Assam ; Soon-da-lee, Punj. ; Teli-mura, 

 Manithi. 



B.iii. D. 12-14 (2/10-12). P. 11. V. 8. A. 7 (2/5). C. 17. 



Length of head 4| to 5-g- in the total length. Eyes diameter 

 3| to 4 in the length of head, 1^ to 1| diameters from end of 

 snout and 1| apart. The preorbital has in some specimens 

 a projection, which is movable, below the orbit (N. botius), whilst 

 in others it is entirely concealed by the skin (N. bilturio). Barbels 

 long, the maxillary pair reaching to below the posterior edge of 

 the eye. Fins dorsal commences rather nearer to the snout than 

 to the base of the caudal fin, its upper edge nearly straight ; caudal 

 slightly notched. Scales distinct. Lateral line complete, 12 

 rows of scales between it and the base of the ventral fin. Colour 

 greyish, with from 10 to 14 short bars on the lateral line, and a 

 number of irregular blotches above it, sometimes forming bands 

 over the back. Dorsal fin orange and with rows of black spots ; 

 caudal with about seven irregular bars bent at an angle, and a 

 black ocellus on the upper portion of the base of the fin. 



Variety Nemachilus aureus, Fishes of India, p. 614, pi. clvi, fig. 4. 

 D. 1 1-12 (2/9-10). Dorsal fin of much less extent than in N. botius. 

 Lateral line ceases opposite the posterior end of the dorsal fin. 



Hob. Sind, Punjab, and throughout India (except the Malabar 

 coast and south of the Eiver Kistna) and Ceylon ; common in 

 Assam. Although the variety N. aureus is found in Assam, it is 

 more abundant than N. botius in the upper portion of the Ganges 

 and Jumna. It is also the form in the Nerbudda, and throughout 

 the Deccan, where the N. botius is likewise to be obtained. 



248. (5.) Nemachilus monoceros. 



Colitis raonocera, McClell. Ind. Cyp. pp. 305, 438, pi. 52, fig. 2. 

 Nemacheilus monoceros, Day, Fish. India, p. 015 (see synon.). 



B. iii. D. 12. P. 12. V. 8. A. 6. C. 18. 



Length of head one fourth of the total without the caudal fin. 

 Eyes situated behind the middle of the length of the head. 

 / Y V//.v caudal rounded. Colour body greenish yellow with a 

 silvery lustre; opercles tinged with green. Caudal and dorsal 

 streaked with numerous small brown bars. 



Hab. Assam. 



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