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red spot on operculum. Dorsal and pectoral tinged with red, and 
minutely spotted with black, as is also the base of each scale and the 
various pieces of the operculum. External half of ventral bright 
orange-scarlet ; anal tinged with red; both minutely dotted with 
black. Caudal stained with black. 
Captured in Cochin, in a small pond. 
Puntrus curysopoma (Cuv. & Val.); 
Munduttee (Mal.). 
Biin,-, D. MBiey Poids, VicQrrnas 14 aah © EM he Uae? 
L. tr. 6/4. Cirri 4. 
Length of specimens from 4 to 73 inches. 
Very common in rivers; grows to upwards of 2 feet in length ; is 
good eating. 
Puntius Hamittoni (Jerdon). 
Oolee perlee (Mal.). 
ie tite Wt 3/83) PAZ, “VW, 92-.A. 2/5.°°C2 195 2B? eee vL) 
tr. 5/3. Cirri 2. 
Length of specimens from 3,2, to 451, inches. 
Dorsal fins commence exactly over the ventrals ; spine smooth. 
It is very similar to the next; but the scales in this species are not 
in parallel rows. Opposite the fifth scale of the lateral line a fresh 
row commences. Height of body half its length, without the caudal 
fin, which is deeply lobed. 
General colour of the back green; abdomen silvery, and a slight 
golden tinge on upper part of operculum ; a dark diffused spot on 
the lateral line from twenty-first to twenty-third scale. Dorsal 
slightly stained with dark at its summit. Pectoral, ventral, and 
anal yellowish. Caudal dirty white. 
When young, the summit of the head is golden green, and a yel- 
low streak runs from opposite the centre of the eye to the centre of 
the tail. When about 2 inches long, the black spot at the side of 
the tail begins to show itself, whilst the dorsal becomes of a brownish 
red, and by degrees the golden streak on the side disappears. 
In the monsoon-time a beautiful rosy streak extends from the eye 
to the centre of the caudal, and the back is more of an olive-green, 
and the fins redder. 
Very common in the rivers and paddy-fields; but is more fre- 
quently found in tanks than some of the other species. 
Puntius parran, Day. 
? Puntius amphibius (Jerdon). Not Cuv. & Val. 
Parrah perlee (Mal.). 
PMs Dd So, P15, Ve 8. Ae 2/0... C10, de Ton 
L. tr. 5/4. Cirri 2. 
Length of specimens from 2,8, to 5 inches. 
Length of head 1, of base of dorsal & of base of anal 54, of pec- 
