1888.] MR. F. DAY ON THE FISHES OF INDIA. 263 



the caudal fin; the height of its longest ray equals two thirds of that 

 of the body, and is rather more than those in the anal fin, which 

 latter is not united to the caudal. Colours : with about ten broad 

 vertical bands, extending from the base of the dorsal to the anal 

 fins, separated from one another by a very narrow white line. Dor- 

 sal and anal fins externally black-edged, and the membranes studded 

 with fine brown spots. Caudal light-coloured. 

 Hab. Ceylon. 



Salarias sindensis, sp. nov. 



B. vi. D. 13/20. P. 14. V. 2. A. 23. C. 12. 



Length of head 5, height of body 5 in the total length. Eyes 

 situated high up near the dorsal profile, diameter \ of the length of 

 the head. Body strongly compressed, profile from above the orbit 

 to the end of the snout oblique. The height of the head equals its 

 length excluding the snout. The posterior extremity of the maxilla 

 reaches to beneath the front edge of the eye. No tentacles or crest 

 on the head. Teeth well developed large posterior canines. Fins : 

 dorsal not notched, but highest posteriorly, where the longest rays 

 equal half the height of the body, anal not quite so high as the soft 

 dorsal ; dorsal, anal, and caudal rays unbranched. The dorsal and 

 anal fins not quite connected to the caudal. Colours : olivaceous ; 

 four wide brown bands on the head, the three anterior of which en- 

 circle it ; about twelve vertical bands on the body more or less distinct, 

 but more marked at the base of the dorsal fin. Dorsal fin with a 

 dark mark along its anterior two thirds ; anal black-edged, each ray 

 tipped with pure white. In one there appear to be marks of some 

 narrow horizontal bands having existed along the front half of the 

 body. 



Hab. Three specimens from Kurrachee in Sind. 



Salarias neilli, sp. nov. 



B. vi. D. 12/17. P. 13. Y. 2. A. 19. C. 10. 



Length of head 4g, height of body 4| in the total length. Eyes 

 situated high up, near the dorsal profile, 4 diameters in the length 

 of the head, 1 diameter from the end of the snout, and h a diameter 

 apart. Frontal profile very steep, the head as high as it is long, 

 the maxilla reaches to beneath the last third of the eye. A fringed 

 supraorbital tentacle about twice as long as the eye; a small fringed 

 one at the nostril ; no crest on the head. Teeth : a very large 

 curved canine posteriorly in the lower jaw, and a smaller curved one 

 in the upper. Fins : spinous portion of dorsal fin lower than the 

 rayed part, the notch between the two parts of the fin well marked ; 

 the longest dorsal rays are equal to half the height of the body of 

 the fish ; neither the dorsal nor the anal fin are attached to the 

 caudal, which latter is somewhat wedge-shaped, and its rays are 

 branched. Colours : olive, with seven or eight short dark bands 

 descending from the dorsal fin down the first third of the body ; 

 some dark bands radiate from the eye ; a large black blotch below 



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