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437. (2.) Danio spinosus. 



Dunio spinosus, Day, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 021 ; id. Fish. India, p. 595, 

 pi. cl, fig. 6. 



13. iii. D. 15-16. A. 19-20. C. 19. L. 1. 55-65. L. tr. 12-14/4. 



Length of head 5 to 5, height of body 3 to 3 in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter 3 to 3| in length of head, 1 diameter from 

 end of snout and also apart. Body strongly compressed. Lower 

 jaw prominent. Third suborbital bone wide aud touching the 

 preopercular ridge. In the adult there is a sharp spine directed 

 forwards above the anterior upper margin of the orbit, and a 

 second, broader and blunter before the centre of the eye, on the 

 preorbital. In immature examples these spines are equally sharp. 

 Barbels-t-a, small rostral pair. Fins the first five or six dorsal rays 

 are in advance of the anal. Pectoral as long as the head. Caudal 

 lunate. Scales 3| rows between lateral line and base of ventral. 

 Colour silvery, with an ill-defined lateral band, and some vertical 

 yellow lines in the anterior half of the body. Dorsal and anal 

 greyish, with reddish margins anteriorly. In the immature there 

 is a dark humeral spot, and a steel-blue lateral baud goes to the 

 centre of the caudal fin, \vhich has a scarlet stripe along the 

 last half of its centre. Some examples have a wide blue central 

 band and two narrow parallel ones superiorly, and the same 

 number inferiorly ; they are divided by yellow ground-colour. 



Hab. Burma ; attaining at least 4 inches in length. 



438. (3.) Danio malabaricus. 



Perilarnpus malabaricus, Jerdon, Mad. Jour. L. S. xv, 1849, p. 325. ' v < 



Uanio malabaricus, Day, Fish. India, p. 695, pi. cl, fig. 7 (see synon.). * *,+*** 



Nooltoo and Chela purroovoo, Tamil. 

 B. iii. D. 12-15. A. 15-19. C. 19. L.l.35-37. L.tr. 7^-8/3. 



Length of heed 5 to 5, height of body 3| to 4 in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter 3 to 3| in length of head, 1 diameter 

 from end of snout, and 1^ apart. The third suborbital bone 

 nearly touches the preopercular ridge. Barbels rostral half as 

 long as the orbit, maxillary very short ; in some specimens the 

 latter are entirely absent. Fins the dorsal arises midway between 

 the base of the candal fin and the posterior edge of the eye ; its 

 anterior half is in advance of the anal. Colour back steel-blue, 

 some irregular vertical yellow lines on the lore part of the body, 

 and three or four blue bands along the sides, the central ones 

 coalescing so as to form a broad bluish band along the middle of 

 the caudal fin. 



Hab. Western coast of India and Ceylon ; attaining 6 inches in 

 length. 



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