224 The Seeing Batchwa and Others. CHAP. xv. 



I have caught it larger. 



The chief distinguishing points are, that in the mature Batchwa the 

 second adipose dorsal fin is wanting, and the feelers of the Batchwa are 

 longer than those of the Cherki. 



The Pupta. 



The Pupta, like the Tengara and the Batchwa, seems to have more 

 than one representative under the same name. Of one of them 

 Mr. Cyril Kirkpatrick says that it is a very good fly-taker indeed, 

 especially early in the season, before the Batchwa is up. He has 

 caught hundreds of them, almost entirely on the fly, but some few with 

 a small fish as bait, at Okhla near Delhi. One I caught at Bisalpore, 

 when fly-fishing for Barilius bola, and certified by a sporting native as 

 a pupta, was different from others equally so named. It is one of the 

 smaller siluroids, and another case of " many marching in his coats." 



