230 TELE08TEI. PHYSOSTOMI. 



the length of the head. Fins dorsal commences midway between 

 the nostrils and the base of the caudal fin. Caudal emarginate. 

 Scales absent, or minute in the posterior half of the body. Lateral 

 line complete. Colour yellowish, with 12 to 17 vertical brown 

 bands, much narrower than the intermediate ground-colour, and 

 decreasing in width below the lateral line, they are sometimes 

 incomplete ; a wide dark band across the base of the caudal, which 

 fin as well as the dorsal has several rows of spots forming bands ; 

 a dark mark at the base of the anterior dorsal rays, sometimes 

 another at the base of the middle ones. 



Hob. Himalayas and ? Tibet at 16,000 feet above the sea. 



255. (12.) Nemachilus montanus. 



Schistura monlaua, McCelland, As. Res. xix, pt. 2; Ind. Ci/p. pp. 307, 



440, t. 67, fig. 1. 

 Nemacheilus montauus, Day, Fish. India, p. 016, pi. cliii, fig. 6 



(see synonl). 

 Saant-al, Punj. 



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



Length of head 5| to 5| in the total length. Eyes small, 

 situated before the middle of the length of the head. The pre- 

 orbital is in the form of an obtuse movable projection, which is 

 sometimes covered by skin. Barbels short, but stout. Fins 

 dorsal commences midway between the posterior margin of the 

 orbit and the base of the caudal fin. Caudal lobed. Scales 

 minute. Colour eleven or twelve vertical brown bands, each from 

 nearly as wide to three times as broad as the buff interspaces. 

 Caudal with a black band at its base and a bar across each lobe. 

 Dorsal with a black base and a black mark at the base of its two 

 first rays, and a dark bar across its centre. 



Hab. Himalayas ; attaining at least 4| inches in length. 



256. (13.) Nemachilus striatus. 



Nemacheilus striatus, Day, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 347 ; Fish. India, p. 017, 



pi. cliii, fig. 8 (see synon.). 

 Cul-irum and Kul-nnkura, Tamil. 



B.iii. D. 11-12 (2/9-10). P. 11. V. 8. A. 7 (2/5). C. 17. 



Length of head 5 1 to 7 in the total length. Eyes in the middle 

 of the length of the head. Barbels well developed. Fins dorsal 

 arises slightly in advance of the ventrals ; caudal slightly lobed. 

 Scales 15 rows between the lateral line and the base of the ventral 

 fin. Lateral line well marked. Colour light reddish brown, with 

 narrow vertical bands darker than the ground-colour, and most 

 distinct in the posterior portion of the body, where there are from 12 

 to 16 behind the commencement of the dorsal fin, and several more 

 between that and the head, which last is marked all over with black 



