154 Smaller Fly Takers. CHAPT. XL 



11. Bariliuf! guttatus, D. 9, A. 11, L.l. 44-48. Two rows of 



spots. Burma. 



12. Barilius tileo, D. 9, A. 13, L.l. 70-75. Two rows of spots. 



Bengal and Assam. 



13. Barilius Evezardi, D. 9, A. 14-15, L.l. 40. Silvery. 



Poona. 



14. Barilius bola, D. 10-11, A. 13, L.l. 88-94. Two rows of 



blotches. Orissa, Bengal, Assam, 



The Indian Trout. 



Barilius hola. 



Of this fish I have no personal knowledge at all. But it is 

 too important a sporting fish to lie omitted mi that account. In 

 the interests of brother anglers my deficiency has been most kindly 

 supplement ed by a paper from the pen of Colonel J. Parsons; and 

 while I express my own indebtedness therefor, I know 1 may add 

 that of my readers. Must kindly has been the response to the 

 invitation thrown out in my first edition, and repeated at page ii 

 of this. 



I have called this fish the Indian trout, because it is commonly 

 thus called in Northern India. Other competitors there are for 

 the name; but Bariiiiix bola seems to have the best title to be 

 called the Indian trout. To avoid confusion, therefore, we will com- 

 mence by deposing the other fish which seem to have less right to 

 the honourable distinction. Oreinvs Michardsanii has, according to 

 Day, been called the "Kemaorj Trout." " Tn some specimens there 

 " are black spots on the sides and head." Of Oreinus sinfaUtts Dr. 

 Day writes, in his "Fishes of India," "Some have scattered black 

 " and occasionally red spots, and these have been termed Trout." 

 But this fish has a sucker with which it adheres to rocks, which is 

 most untroutlike, and Dr. Day tells me it will not take a fly at any 

 price, a piece of wrong-headedness for which, with your concur- 

 rence, it should be shorn of its brevet-rank, in spite of its red 

 spots, o/i forums,' puer ni nun in ne crede colori — we will degrade you 

 in spite of your looks. " Handsome is that handsome does" is the 

 belter rule, and as Barilius hula sports like a trout, as we shall see 

 from Colonel Parsons, let us allow his claim, though he has no 

 adipose dorsal fin like the true trout* (salmonidse). We may have 



