1867.] MR. F. DAY ON INDIAN FISHES. 297 



operclc, bends directly downwards to opposite the posterior extremity 

 of the pectoral fin, it then follows the curve of the abdomen to its 

 termination ; it consists of single tubes. 



Teeth. Pharyngeal teeth crooked and pointed, 5, 4, 2/2, 4, 5. 



Coloius. Back greenish, sides silvery, with a purplish tinge along 

 the abdomen, and a badly marked broad steel-blue stripe extending 

 from behind the eye to the caudal fin ; it is bounded superiorly and 

 interiorly by a narrow bright yellow band. Fins yellowish, with fine 

 black dots, the external portions of dorsal and anal the highest. 

 The colours vary in different places. 



Hab. Ootacamund Lake, Pykara, Avelanche, and Kaity streams. 

 This is the only indigenous fish of the hills. 



With short dorsal Jin, and an elonyaled ray in ventral fin. 



Paradanio elegans, spec. nov. 



B.iii. D. 1/3. P. 11. V.8. A. 2/23. C. 19. L. 1. 52. L.tr.8/2. 



Length of specimens up to 3^ inches. 



Length of head \, of pectoral \, of base of dorsal J^, of base of 

 anal \, of caudal nearly \ of the total length. Height of head 1, of 

 body f, of dorsal g, of anal ^ of the total length. 



Hyes. Diameter \ of length of head, | of a diameter from end of 

 snout, \\ apart. 



Profile of dorsal aspect rises slightly to the base of the dorsal fin ; 

 along the abdominal surface there is a regular curve from the sym- 

 physis of the lower jaw to the end of the anal fin. Body strongly 

 compressed. 



Cleft of mouth deep, oblique, and reaching to nearly under the 

 anterior margin of the orbit. Snout short. Upper jaw slightly 

 compressed; lower jaw the longest; both covered by thin lips. 

 Nostrils generic. 



Fins. Dorsal commences over the middle of the anal. Ventral 

 with an elongated ray extending backwards as far as the middle of 

 the anal, which last fin is highest anteriorly. Caudal lobed, the in- 

 ferior lobe both largest and longest. 



Scales with two or three diverging striae. Base of dorsal not 

 scaled, of anal scaled. 



Lateral line in single tubes ; it first curves round the base of the 

 pectoral fin, and just beyond the vciUral attains within two scales 

 of the abdominal profile, which it follows as far as the posterior ex- 

 tremity of the anal, and then curves upwards to the centre of the 

 caudal. 



Teeth. Pharyngeal teeth crooked at their extremity and pointed, 

 5, 4, 1/1, 4, 5. 



Colours. Greenish, with a silvery band extending from opposite 

 the upper margin of the opercle to the upper portion of the caudal 

 fin. Abdomen silvery. Several irregular yellow bars pass down- 

 wards from the back to the abdomen. Cheeks silvery. Fins dia- 

 phanous. Eyes golden. 



Hab. Bowany River. 



