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1869.] URGEON F. DAY ON THE FISHES OF ORISSA. 37: 
97. Barus (Puntivus) tTicro, H. Buch. 
Kudji kerundi (Ooriah). 
Boa, (D. 3) PL Da Me GS hep 9c) acl 28i- Us. ti. 5. 
Lateral line incomplete. 
In some specimens the fins are black. 
Hab. Rivers and tanks. 
98. Barsus (Puntivs) poutunio, H. Buch. 
Kudji kerundi (Ooriah). 
B. ii. D3. P.15. V.9. A.3. C.19. L.1. 20-23. L. tr. 8-10. 
The dorsal ray in some specimens, apparently in all in Orissa, 
undergoes a very curious change in this species. Serrated in the 
young, the teething decreases as age advances, so that when the fish 
is about 2 inches in length the ray is quite smooth, This I do not 
find to be the case in specimens from Burmabh, five fine ones of 
which are in the Calcutta Museum, up to 2 inches inlength. Their 
lateral line has 23 scales, and their lateral transverse 5/5. Mr. 
Blyth remarked upon these specimens in the ‘Journ. Asiat. Soc. 
Beng.’ 1860, p. 159, considering them, and I believe correctly, to 
be of this species. Dr. Giinther has named some specimens from 
Ceylon B. cumingit and B. nigrofasciatus, the one having two, the 
other three vertical bands, a very common occurrence in this species 
—adding also that the latter have one more row of scales, and are 
scarcely striated, which is not the case in those he has seen of the 
former. Dr. Bleeker appears to have considered the Ceylon and 
Indian forms identical; but, without comparing specimens from the 
two localities, it must be exceedingly difficult to offer an opinion, 
especially as this fish is subject to considerable variations, and the 
Indian form does not appear to be in the British-Museum collection. 
Some of my Orissa specimens have six striz on each scale, others 
four, whilst in some no striz are observable. Many have twenty-one 
rows of scales on the body. 
Dorsal ray entire. 
99. Barsus (Puntivus) stigma, Cuv. & Val. 
Systomus sophore, M‘Clelland. 
Puntius modestus, Kner. 
Patia kerundi (Ooriah). 
Bee eo fe ts. . Ve 9s Avo. C19. Theo. 
L. tr. 5/4. Vert. = 
Kner’s fish shows a coloration which is very common, denoting 
the specimen to be out of season, in bad health, or that it has been 
macerated some time. 
I gave my reasons, in the P. Z. S. for 1868, p. 198, for not 
accepting Dr. M‘Clelland’s fish as identical with Hamilton Bucha- 
nan’s. In the old collection of the fishes of the Asiatic Society of 
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