198 SURGEON F. DAY ON NEW FISHES FROM MADRAS. [Mar. 12, 



stripe extending along the middle of the body to the centre of the 

 caudal fin. Fins diaphanous. Dorsal, pectoral, and caudal stained 

 with greyish ; a deep-black mark on the dorsal fin from the base of 

 the third to the base of the sixth branched ray. Very fine dark 

 dots over scales, especially at their bases. An indistinct black mark 

 on lateral line from nineteenth to twenty-first scale. Eye golden. 



Hab. Bangalore. 



I have named this species after Major Puckle, who has been good 

 enough to collect for me about thirty species of fishes from Mysore. 

 This has enabled me to identify many of Cuvier and Valenciennes's 

 species, which I otherwise should not (at least at present) have been 

 able to effect. 



PUNTIUS (PUNTIUS) STIGMA. 



Leuciscus stigma, C. & V. xvii. p. 93, pi. 489. 



Systomus sophore, M^'Clelland, Asiatic Researches, xix. pp. 285, 

 382. 



B. iv. D. 3/8. P. 17. V. 9. A. 3/5. L.l. 25. L. tr. 5/4. 



Pharyngeal teeth spoon-shaped, summits 5, 3, 2 / 2, 3, 5. 



This species has been fully described by Valenciennes and M'^Clel- 

 land ; it only, therefore, remains to observe upon its colours and 

 habitat. 



Colours. In the breeding-season the female has a scarlet line along 

 the side of the body, and a golden spot dashed with crimson on the 

 operculum, also a diffused badly marked spot on the side of the tail on 

 the twenty-first and twenty-second scales of the lateral line. Dorsal 

 fin with a black band jiassing along the base of the rays from the 

 third to the seventh. 



As the breeding-season passes away the scarlet line partially, in 

 some entirely, disappears ; but it seems that the well-marked lateral 

 blotch is only seen in the males. In some the mark on the dorsal 

 fin is seen with difficulty. 



Out of ten specimens sent from Mysore by Major Puckle, one was 

 without the scarlet stripe, but the two black marks were very distinct ; 

 in another the lateral blotch was scarcely to be distinguished. 



It was pointed out by Valenciennes that the species of Puntius 

 named sophore by Ham. Buchanan had four cirri, and that M^'CIel- 

 land's species had none ; consequently the fish he described was 

 distinct. 



I have taken the Puntius stigma, C. & V., at Madras, also at 

 Kurnool ; it appears to be a very widely diffused species. I should 

 observe that the first undivided ray in the dorsal fin is very minute, 

 and liable to remain undetected, 



Danio lineatus, sp. nov. 



B. iii. D. 2/7. P. 13. V. 8. A. 3/12. C. 19. L. 1. 26-28. 

 L. tr. 6. 



Length of specimens from 1 to 1 j— inch. 



Length of head |, of base of dorsal J,, of base of anal -■^\, of cau- 



