1 86 Smaller Fly Takers. CHAP. xn. 



11. Barilius guttatus. D. 9, A. 14, L.I. 44-48. Two rows of spots. 



Burmah. 



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



Bengal and Assam. 



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



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



Orissa, Bengal, Assam. 



THE INDIAN TROUT. 

 Barilius bola. 



When I wrote my second edition I had no personal knowledge of 

 this fish, and was indebted solely to the obliging pen of Colonel 

 Parsons, from whom I will still quote, adding the personal and other 

 knowledge since acquired. 



I have called it the Indian Trout, because it is commonly thus 

 called in Northern India. Other competitors there are for the name ; 

 but Barilius bola seems to have the best title to be called the Indian 

 trout. To avoid confusion, therefore, we will commence by deposing 

 the other fish which seem to have less right to the honourable dis- 

 tinction. Orienus Richards onii has, according to Day, been called the 

 " Kemaon Trout." " In some specimens there are black spots on the 

 sides and head." Of Orienus sinuatus 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 concurrence, it should be shorn of its brevet-rank, in spite of 

 its red spots. Ohformose puer nimium ne crede colon we will degrade 

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

 better rule, and as Barilius bola sports like a trout, as we shall see, let 

 us allow his claim, though he has no adipose dorsal fin like the true 

 trouts (salmonidce). We may have the less hesitation in confirming the 

 honorific as there are no indigenous trout in India. 



The plate is taken by permission from Dr. Day's " Fishes of India," 

 the mouth only being a little opened to show the peculiarly beaked 

 and prominent under jaw. 



"The Barilius bola (vernac. Gulabi Machli, rose-speckled fish) by 

 An lo-Indians commonly misnamed Trout," writes Colonel Parsons, "is 



