1869.] SURGEON F. DAY ON INDIAN FISHES. 611 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XLVII. 
Fig. 1. Male Fin-whale (Physalus antiquorum), 61 feet in length, stranded near 
Portsmouth, November 20th, 1869. 
2. Anterior portion of the roof of the mouth, showing the baleen 77 sétv. 
a. Smooth median ridge of the palate. 
b, Filamentous inner surface of the baleen. 
c. Small, anterior, reclined baleen-plates. 
3. Outline of the tail. 
2. On some of the Fishes in the Calcutta Museum. 
By Francis Day, F.Z.S., F.L.S.—Part III.* 
At the commencement of these papers on the Fishes in the Cal- 
eutta Museum, I proposed offering some remarks on Hamilton 
Buchanan’s MS. ichthyological drawings, which I have had the op- 
portunity of fully examining whilst in Calcutta. I find, however, 
objections exist to this course, as it is advanced that my observations 
should be addressed to the Society to whom those drawings belong ; 
consequently, should I give my views publicity, I must reserve them 
for the consideration of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
I have, however, a few more remarks to make upon the Fishes of 
the Calcutta Museum. Amongst the specimens I have been unable 
to find some of Mr. Blyth’s types ; but having fortunately recognized 
several of the species in Burma, I shall be able, when adverting to 
the fishes of that country, to remark upon them. 
A crest on the head. Dorsal fin notched. 
SALARIAS ANDAMENSIS, Sp. nov. 
D.12/22. P.15.. V.4.. A. 22-24... C.1). 
Length of head 3, of pectoral 4, of caudal =%; of the total length. 
Height of body + of the total length. 
Eyes. Diameter 4 of length of head. 
Mouth very oblique, directed downwards and forwards; snout 
obtuse, vertical; the maxilla extends to beneath the posterior margin 
of the orbit. Tentacle above orbit two-thirds as long as the eye. 
Occipital crest rather high. A small fringed tentacle at the nostril. 
Teeth in a single row, with a large canine internally on either side 
of the lower jaw. 
Fins. A rather deep notch between the two divisions of the dorsal 
fin; the posterior extremity of the dorsal is not connected by mem- 
brane to the caudal; the central rays of caudal the longest. 
Lateral line in upper fourth of body, commencing to curve down- 
wards opposite the eighth dorsal spine, after which it soon becomes 
lost. 
Colours. Brownish, with ten brown bars along the centre of the 
body, and a row of oblong pearl-coloured spots with dark margins 
along the middle of the last half of the body, and a second row 
* See Part I. p. 511, and Part IT, p. 548. 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1869, No. XL. 
