358 TELEOSTEI. PDYSOSTOMI. 



slight knob at its extremity. The third suborbital bone almost 

 touches the preopercular ridge. Barbels a short rostral pair, 

 and sometimes rudimentary maxillary ones. Teeth pharyngeal, 

 crooked, pointed, 5, 4, 2/2, 4, 5. Fins the dorsal extends to 

 above the fourth or fifth anal ray. Caudal forked. Scales 

 15 rows before the base of the dorsal fin. Colour back greenish, 

 sides silvery, with a purplish tinge along the abdomen; a badly- 

 marked broad, steel-blue stripe, bounded above and below by a 

 narrow yellow edging, extends from behind the eye to the caudal 

 fin. The youny usually have light horizontal bands. 



Hob. Rivers on the Nilgiri (Neilgherry) Hills ; attaining 3| 

 inches in length. 



443. (8.) Danio rerio. 



32;, 



4 (see synon.). 



Cyprinus rerio, Ham. Buck. Fish. Ganges, pp. 323, 3',;0. 

 Danio rerio, Day, Fish. India, p. 597, pi. cli, fig. 



Poncha-geraldi, Ooriah. 

 B. iii. D. 9 (2/7). A. 15-16 (2-3/12-13). C. 19. L. 1. 26-2S. L. tr. 6. 



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

 length. Ayes diameter about 3 in length of head, f a diameter 

 from end of snout, and 1 diameter apart. Lower jaw the longer. 

 Barbels rostral short, maxillary reaching end of opercle. Tettli 

 pharyngeal, crooked, pointed, 5, 3, 1/1, 3, 5. Fins dorsal com- 

 mencing opposite the anal, and situated in the middle of the total 

 length : it and the anal highest anteriorly ; caudal deeply forked. 

 Lateral line absent. Colour four metallic blue lines along the 

 sides (separated by three narrow silvery ones), and forming three 

 bands on the caudal fin. Dorsal with a blue edging. Anal with 

 three longitudinal blue bands. 



Hob. Bengal, and as low down the Coromandel coast as 

 Masulipatam. It attains to about 2 inches in length. 



444. (9.) Danio albolineatns. 



Nuria albolineata, Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xxix, 1860, p. 103. 



Danio albolineata, Day, Fish. India, p. 597, pi. cl, fig. 1 (see synon.). 



B. iii. D. 9 (2/7). A. 13-15 (2/11-13). C. 19. L. 1. 31-33. L. tr. 5|/3. 



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

 length. Eyes diameter 2| to 3 in the length ot head, f of a 

 diameter from end of snout, and 1 apart. Body moderatelv 

 compressed. Lower jaw anterior ; the maxilla extends to below 

 the front edge of the orbit. Barbels maxillary reach beyond 

 the base of the pectoral fin; rostral ones to. the posterior 

 margin of the orbit. Teeth pharyngeal 5, 4, 2/2, 4, 5. Fins 

 dorsal commences slightly in advance of the anal. Caudal fin 

 emarginate. Lateral line incomplete, 1| rows of scales between 

 it and the base of the ventral fin ; 16 rows before the base of the 

 dorsal fin. Colour greenish superiorly: a scarlet band with a 



