356 TELEOSTEI. PHYSOSTOMI. 



439. (4.) Danio sequipinnatns. (Fig. 111.) 



Perilampus sequipinnatus, McClelland, As. Res. xix, pt. 2 ; Ind. Cyp. 



p. 393, pi. 60, fig. 1. 

 Danio aequipinnatus, Day, Fish. India, p. o96, pi. cl, fig. 5 (see synon.). 



B. iii. D. 12-14. A. 14-16. C. 19. L. 1. 32-34. L. tr. 6-7/3. 



Length of head 5, height of body 4 to 4| in the total length. 

 Eyes diameter 3| to 4 in length of head, 1 diameter from end of 

 snout, and 1| apart. The third suborbital bone nearly touches 

 the preopercular ridge. Cleft of mouth oblique and extending to 



Fig. 111. Danio cequipinnatus. 



under the anterior margin of the orbit ; a bluntish knob at the 

 syuipbysis. Barbels rostral half as long as the orbit ; maxillary 

 minute. Fins the dorsal arises midway between the centre of 

 the orbit and the base of the caudal fin, extending to over the 

 anterior anal rays ; it is two thirds as high as the body. Pectoral 

 as long as the head without the snout, nearly reaching the ventral, 

 which last does not extend as far as the anal. Caudal forked, 

 but not deeply so. Scales 1| rows between lateral line and 

 base of ventral fin; 13 rows before the dorsal fin. Colour 

 yellowish white : a wide bluish band extends along the body from 

 the eye to the centre of the base of the caudal fin ; in its course 

 are sometimes several round silvery spots: below it is another 

 narrow band (which occasionally joins the central one anteriorly) ; 

 there are two other lighter bands above the central one. The 

 intermediate ground-colour is yellow. Fins yellowish. Dorsal 

 and anal fins each with a broad bluish band along their outer half. 

 In some specimens there is a dark mark behind the gill-opening. 



Hob. Himalayas at Darjeeling and the whole of the Assam 

 district as high as Sadiya, the Naga and Garo hills, Tenasserim 

 and the Deccan. 



440. (5.) Danio dangila. 



Cyprinus dangila, Ham. Buck. Fish. Ganges, pp. 321, 390. 

 Danio dangila, Day, Fish. India, p. 596, pi. cl, fig. 3 (see synon.). 



