286 TET.EOSTEI. PIIYSOSTOMT. 



the head. Ventral arises below the middle of the dorsal fin, and 

 does not quite reach the anal, nor the latter the caudal, which is 

 deeply forked. Scales 4\ rows between lateral line and base of 

 ventral fin. Colour reddish brown along the back ; abdomen 

 silvery. A black band passes from the eye to the centre of the 

 caudal fin. A dark band along, the middle third of the dorsal, 

 which is edged above by scarlet; a dark band on anal having a 

 light anterior edge ; a dark edging to the caudal. The young are 

 silvery grey along the back, becoming silvery on the sides ; the 

 lateral band terminates in a black blotch at the base of the 

 caudal fin. 



Hob. Coorg, hill-streams of South Canara, and the Wynaad. 



331. (5.) Scaphiodon brevidorsalis. (Fig. 98.) 



Semiplotus brevidorsalis, Day, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 239. 



Scaphiodon brevidoi sails, Uuy, Fiali. India, p. 552, pi. cxxxiii, fig. 2. 



Mean-candee, Tamil. 

 B. iii. D. 14 (3/11). V. 9. A. 7. L. 1. 39-40. L. tr. 7-8/9. 



Length of head 6, height of body 3.V in the total length. Eyes 

 diameter 3 to 4 in tbe length of head, and situated in or rather 

 before tbe middle of its length, and 2-i- diameters apart. Dorsal 

 profile much more convex than that of the abdomen. Snout 



Fig. 98. Scaphiodon brevidorsalis. 



swollen, overhanging the jaws ; mouth inferior, transverse ; three 

 rows of large pores across the snout, and extending on to the pre- 

 orbital bone ; knob at symphysis badly developed : a thin car- 

 tilaginous covering to both jaws. Upper lip crenulated. Barbels 

 absent. Fins last undivided dorsal ray osseous, very strong, 

 entire, longer than the head by a distance equal to one diameter of 

 the orbit. Dorsal fin commences midway between the snout and the 



