THE FISHES OF THE DECCAN. 569 



vessel. " Hathoo kellettee, Tam. ; Code jellaJi, Tel. ; Btcrah ku- 

 turnee, Hind." 



10. Rita GOGRA=Phractocephalus gogra, Sykes; Piraelodus? gogra, 

 BleeJcer ; ? Arius pavimentatus, Val. * ; Pangasia ? gogra, Jerdon ; 

 Gogrius Sykesii, Day. 



I have taken tbis fish in the Kistna at Kurnool, snd also re- 

 ceived it from Poona. 



11. PsEUDECTROPius GooNGWAREE = Hypophtlialmus goongwaree, 

 Sykes; Bagrus exodon, Val. ; B. goongwaree, Bleeker 8f Jerdon. 



Although this species is not in Dr. Dobson's collection, I have 

 obtained it in the Deccan. 



12. Ps. TAAKREE = Hypophthalmus taakree, Sykes; Bagrus taakree, 

 Bleeker ^ Jerdon ; Pseudentropius longimanus, Oiinther. 



13. Callichrous BiMACULATus = Silurus bimaculatus, BZoeA. 

 This may be Schilhe pabo, 8y]ies,= WaUaffo paho, Bleeker; 



Silurus pdbo, Jerdon. The C. bimaculatus is the common Deccan 

 form, but it has rarely above 66 anal rays ; whilst Sykes states A. 

 68-70, and may refer to G. chechra. Ham. Bueh., also found in the 

 Deccan. " Choioallay, Tam. ; Tedwah, Tel. ; Poptah, Hind. ; Goom- 

 gulaJi, Mahr." 



14. Wallago ATTU = Silm'us athu, BZ. ; Schilbe boalis, SyAre*; Wal- 

 lago Russellii, Bleeker; Silurus boalis, Jerdon. 



" Wallay, Tam.; Walgoo, Tel.; Podom, Hind." 



15. SiLUNDiA Sykesii, n. s.?=?AgeneiosusChildreni, Sykes, Bleeker, 

 Sj- Jerdon. 



B.xii.,D.i/0,P.l,V.6,A.jA_,C.17. 



Length of head 5 J, of caudal 4f ; height of body 5f i.i the total length. 

 Eyes with a narrow, free, adipose lid, diameter 3h in length of head, 

 1 diameter from end of snout and 1| apart. Anterior nostril on front 

 edge of snout, the posterior oval and patent, more in the mesial line 

 of the head. Lower jaw slightly the longer, curved upwards in the 

 middle; snout rather broad. Barbels — the maxillary ones extend 

 nearly, or quite, to the base of the pectoral fin ; the mandibular ones 

 are thin and as long as the diameter of the eye. Teeth cardiform in 

 the jaws; in a cresccntic band on the palate. Fi'ns— dorsal spine 

 weak, rugose anteriorly, finely serrated posteriorly, and as long as the 



* Valenciennes does not mention the dark fins so well mnrked in this species ; 

 but as his specimen was upwards of a foot long, it cannot be the young of Pime- 

 lodus rifa, H. B. 



