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centre of each scale. Eight to ten vertical black bands pass down 

 the sides to the abdomen. lu a Ceylon specimen in the British 



Fig. 135. Haplochilus lineatus. 



Museum there are dark blotches and not distinct bars as seen in 

 Malabar examples. 



Hab. This species is found in Coorg and the Wynaad, down the 

 Malabar coast and in Ceylon. It attains 4 inches in length. 



531. (4.) Haplochilus panchax. 



Esox panchax, Ham. Bitch. Fish. Ganyes, pp. 211, 380, pi. iii, fig. 69. 

 Haplochilus panchax, Day, Fish. India, p. 523, pi. cxxi, fig. 3 (see 

 synou.). 



Pang-chax, Beng. ; Kanakuri and Bor-ro-guddi, Ooriah ; Nya-saki, 

 Mugh ; Cho-to-dah, Andainanese. 



B.v-vi. D.7-11. A. 15-17. C. 13. L. 1. 31-34. L. tr. 9-10. 



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

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

 end of snout, and 1| apart. Teeth in a broad band on the vomer. 

 Fins ventral small and without any elongated ray. .Anal nearly 

 square. Caudal rounded. Colour a white occipital spot. Upper 

 surface greenish, becoming dull white on the sides and beneath. 

 Fins yellowish, lower third of dorsal covered with a large black 

 spot. Dorsal, caudal, and anal margined with orange. 



A variety exists on the Sind hills, and in Cutch, which has less 

 scales (28) along the lateral line, numerous silvery spots along the 

 sides, and a black spot behind the eye, the dorsal and anal fins are 

 likewise more elongate. 



Hab. From Orissa, through the lower province of Bengal, Burma, 

 Siam to the Malay Archipelago, also the Andamans. (? Also Siud 

 hills.) This species attains at least 3 inches in length. 



Family XI. SCOMBRESOCIMl. 



Syn. Fharynaognathi malacopterygii, Miiller. 



Pseudobrauchiflo concealed, glandular. Margin of the upper ja\v 

 formed mesially by the premaxillaries, laterally by the maxilhiries. 

 Barbels present or absent. Lower pharyngeals united into a single 



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