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white clashed with reddish green over the abdomen. A black 

 blotch, about two scales in width, passes from below tbe origin of 

 the dorsal fin as low as the lateral line ; a second from just below 

 the posterior extremity of the dorsal to the base of the anal ; and 

 a third across the free portion of the tail before the caudal fin. 

 Dorsal, caudal, and anal pinkish with a black bar across the summit 

 of the first, whilst the caudal is stained at its edges. 



Hob. Wynaad and Kilgiri range of hills and the rivers at their 

 bases, and at least as far south as Kotayam in Travancore ; also in the 

 Cauvery, from whence this fish has been procured at Seringapatam, 

 where it is termed Aruli. It attains 4 inches or more in length. 



386. (48.) Barbns mahecola. (Fig. 105.) 



Leuoiscus mahecola, Ctiv. fy Val. H.' N. Poiss. xvii, p. 305, pi. 502 



(barbels omitted). 



Barbusmahecola, -Day, Fish. India, p 575, pi. cxl, fig. 5 (see synon.). 

 B. iii. D. 11 (3/8). P. 15. V. 9. A. 7 (2/5). C. 19. 



L. 1. 21. L. tr. 5/4. ' 



Length of head 4f to 5, height of body 3% to 3| in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter 3 in the length of head, 1 diameter from 

 end of snout, 1 1 diameters apart. In some specimens the snout is 

 covered with large pores. Barbels a thin maxillary pair extending 



Fig. 105. Barbus mahecola. 



to below the centre of the orbit in some specimens, very minute 

 in others (see remarks, p. 294). Fim last undivided dorsal ray 

 articulated, smooth, feeble ; the branched rays are elongate in the 

 adult ; the fin commences midway between the snout and the base 

 of the caudal fin. Caudal deeply lobed. Lciteral line complete, 

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

 silvery white, with a deep black oval mark on the lateral line from 

 about the fourteenth to the eighteenth scale. A dark band along 

 the dorsal fin. Caudal red, tipped with black. 



Holt. Prom Canara down the Western coast and along the base 

 of the Nilgiris, and Travancore hills, also Ceylon ; attaining at 

 least 6 inches in length. 



