302 MR. F. DAY ON THE FISHES OF COCHIN. _[Mar. 14, 
toral 4, of caudal + of the total length. Height of head 4, of body 4, 
of dorsal 1, of anal + of the total length. Diameter of eye nearly 5 
of the length of the head, eyes-nearly 17 diameter apart, 1 diameter 
from end of snout. 
Profile curved gradually to dorsal, descends along its base, and 
thence straight to the caudal. 
Cirri, one pair at the superior maxillee, which are two-thirds of 
the length of the orbit. Nostrils nearer to the orbit than to end of 
snout; posterior patent, divided from anterior, which is slightly 
tubular, by a membranous valve. 
Fins. Dorsal commences midway between snout and base of caudal, 
situated just over the ventral. Spine strong, smooth, and with a 
soft point ; last two rays elongated. Anal arises behind the poste- 
rior margin of dorsal, at equal distance between the orbit and the 
end of the caudal. Upper surface of dorsal concave; under surface 
of anal the same. Caudal deeply lobed. Pectoral does not quite 
reach the ventral, nor the ventral the anal. 
Scales. Rows above the lateral line regular, parallel, unbroken. 
Colours. Upper surface of back dark silvery green, divided from 
a silvery abdomen by a dark bluish line. Cheeks golden red. Pec- 
toral, ventral, and anal tinged with yellow. Dorsal and caudal dusky. 
A diffused black spot on the lateral line extending from twentieth to 
twenty-second scale. Eyes golden. 
Very common in the rivers, and also in the inundated paddy- 
fields. 
Puntius punctatus, Day, sp. nov. 
Putter perlee (Mal.). 
Bi.) 3/6... te to V8. Aod/an, Co 1s.. te Tee geemia 
tr. 6/4. No cirri. 
Length of specimens from 2,3, to 354, inches. 
Third dorsal spine strongly serrated posteriorly. 
Length of head 1, of pectoral 4, of base of dorsal +, of base of 
anal ;/;, of caudal 1 of total length. Height of head 1, of body +, 
of dorsal + of total length. Eye large, close to profile, nearly 3 the 
length of head, + of a diameter from end of snout, eyes nearly | dia- 
meter apart. 
Lateral line first curves gently downwards, and from opposite base 
of ventral passes direct to centre of caudal. 
Colours. Olive-green above, gradually fading into silvery on the 
abdomen. A black diffused spot on the twentieth and twenty-first 
scales of the lateral line. The anterior half of the fourth scale from 
the operculum, of the row next below the lateral line, deep black, 
and also a portion of the scale above and beneath it. Fins yellowish. 
Dorsal and anal tipped with orange. Dorsal spotted with black, in 
two longitudinal rows, with a third in the front part between the 
other two. The dark markings are much more visible in the months 
when the freshes are coming down. 
Common ; eaten by the natives. 
