1869. ] SURGEON F. DAY ON INDIAN FISHES. 559 
Height of body 3, length of head + of the total length. 
The pectoral fins are not so long as the head in either specimen. 
The species appears identical with Nuria danrica, Ham. Buch. 
NuRIA MALABARICA. 
_ Esomus malabaricus, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p- 299. 
Dr. Giinther, Cat. Fishes, vii. p. 201, demurs to this species 
without a lateral line being considered to differ from N. danrica (in 
which a lateral line is present), because he has only received young 
examples. Seven specimens, up to 2 inches in length, exist in the 
Calcutta collection, and I have taken many others in the Irrawaddi. 
I have no doubt as to the distinctness of the two species. 
BaRILIUS INTERRUPTA, sp. nov. 
Boa, Wye. .b. 10, Vie, A. 2/02. C219) Eel. 34. “li. tr 
Length of head 2, of pectoral 3, of base of dorsal 1, of base of 
anal nearly 2, of caudal + of the total length. Height of head 1, 
of body 7, of dorsal fin ;%;, of ventral 7, of anal 4 of the total length. 
Eyes. Diameter 2 of length of head, rather above 4 a diameter 
from end of snout, 1 diameter apart. 
Lower jaw slightly the longest; no barbels. Third suborbital 
bone about twice as wide as the. soft naked portion of the cheek 
below it. The posterior extremity of the maxilla extends to below 
the anterior third of the orbit. Humeral process of shoulder-bone 
very slightly developed. 
Teeth pharyngeal, uncinate, 5, 4, 2/2, 4, 5. 
Fins. Dorsal arises in advance of the anal, ad midway between 
the posterior margin of the opercle and the base of the caudal fin. 
Pectoral scarcely reaches so far as the ventral, whilst the latter only 
extends two-thirds of the distance to the base of the anal. Candal 
forked in its posterior fourth. 
Scales with numerous strize. 
Lateral line descends gently for five scales, then more abruptly for 
two more, and having continued along five more scales, to opposite the 
base of the ventral fin, it ceases. 
Colours. Silvery, with short vertical bars along the middle of the 
side. All the upper scales with large black dots. 
Numerous specimens, to 2 inches in length, from Hotha, collected 
by Dr. J. Anderson, 
2 
bole leo 
PERILAMPUS FULVESCENS, Blyth, J.A.S. of Bengal, 1860, p- 163. 
B. ui. D. 2/8. P.15. V.7. A. 2/20. C.17. L.1. 33. L. tr. 7/3. 
Length of head 4, of pectoral above 4, of base of anal 2 of the 
total length. Height of body + of the total length. 
Eyes. Diameter 3 of length of head, | diameter from end of snout, 
1 diameter apart. 
Body compressed, abdomen not trenchant. 
Fins. Dorsal commences midway between the posterior margin of 
