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B. iii. D. 11-13. A. 17-18. C. 20. L. 1. 38. L. tr. 7/4|. 



Length of head 5, height of body 3| to 4 in the total length. 

 Eyes diameter 3 in length of head, | of a diameter from 

 end of snout. Lower jaw the longer, with a knob at the sym- 

 physis. Barbels rostral a little shorter than the head ; maxillary 

 pair slightly longer. Fins the posterior dorsal rays are above 

 the anterior anal. Caudal slightly emarginate. Scales 2| rows 

 between lateral line and base of ventral : 18 rows before dorsal 

 fin. Colour back olive, abdomen silvery, sides with several 

 narrow blue lines, which in the anterior half or two thirds of the 

 body form a beautiful network: a dark spot behind gill-covers. 

 Anal fin with two or three blue stripes. 



Hub. Bengal, Behar, Himalayas at Darjeeling, also the hills 

 above .Akyab ; grows to 5 or 6 inches in length. 



441. (6.) Danio chrysops. 



Leuciscus chrysops, Cttv. Sr Val. H. N. Poiss. xvii, p. 308. 

 Danio chrysops, Day, Fish. India, p. 596 (see synon.). 



B.iii. D. 13 (3/10). A. 18 (3/15). C. 19. L. 1. 45. L. tr. 8/4. 



Length of head 4f, height of body 4 in the total length. 

 Eyes diameter 2f in length of head, | a diameter from end of 

 snout, and 1 apart. Snout obtuse ; upper jaw slightly the longer. 

 Third suborbital bone nearly as wide as the uncovered portion of 

 the cheek below it. Dorsal profile rather more convex than that 

 of the abdomen. Fins the dorsal commences midway between 

 the middle of the eye and base of the caudal fin ; it is entirely in 

 advance of the anal, and two thirds as high as the body below it. 

 Lateral line curves downwards in the pectoral region, whence it 

 proceeds direct to the centre of the base of the caudal. Colour 

 silvery, the upper two thirds of the body darker than the lower. 



Hob. Bengal. 



442. (7.) Danio neilgherriensis. 



Paradanio neilgherriensis, Day, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 296. 

 Danio neilgherriensis, Day, Fish. India, p. 697, pi. cl, fig. 2 (see 

 synon.). 



CawKe, Tamil. 



B.iii. D. 12-14 (3/9-11). P. 15. V. 7. A. 13-14 (2/11-12). 

 C. 19. L. 1. 35-37. L. tr. 6-7/4. Vert. 12/20. 



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

 length. Eyes diameter 3 to 3| in the length of head, f of a 

 diameter from end of snout, 1^ diameters apart. Abdominal 

 profile more convex than the dorsal. The maxilla reaches to 

 below the front edge of the eye. Lower jaw anterior, with a 



