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Eemaeks on some Indian Fishes, — hy burgeon Major Feancis Day. 



(Received March 25th ; read April 1st, 1874.) 



Amongst a small collection of Burmese fishes presented last year by Mr. 

 Theobald, of the Geological Survey of India, to the Indian Museum, I found 

 a species of Groby of the genus Sicydium which appears to be undescribed. 

 The exact locality in which it was captured has not been recorded, but 

 I believe it to be identical with a specimen in my collection from 

 Pegu, which, being in Europe, is not available for comparison. 



SiCTDITJM FASCIATUM, Sp. nOV. 



B. iv, D. 61 x'o» V- 6» A- llj ^' 13, L. V. 70, L. tr. 15. 



Length of head, of caudal fin and height of body each 1/5 of the total 

 length. Eyes, diameter 2/9 of length of head, nearly 1|- diameters from the 

 end of snout and If apart. Body subcylindrical : head rather flattened 

 superiorly and broader than high, its breadth being equal to its length 

 excluding the snout. Cleft of mouth horizontal extending to below the 

 middle of the orbit : lips rather thick : snout overhanging the mouth. 

 Teeth, in the upper jaw small and implanted in the gums in a single row : 

 those in the lower jaw large, conical, recurved, some distance apart, the 

 anterior ones being the largest and the posterior one likewise some- 

 what larger than the lateral ones. Fins, dorsal spines rather filiform and 

 projecting beyond the membrane, being 3/4 as high as the body beneath : 

 pectorals nearly as long as the head : ventrals short forming a complete 

 disk. Scales somewhat irregularly arranged, extending forwards nearly to 

 the eyes, those anterior to the dorsal fin and also in front of the anal much 

 smaller than the others. Colours reddish-brown, with about six vertical 

 darker bands on the body wider than the ground colour, some dark spots 

 likewise present : under surface of the body dirty yellowish-brown. Fins 

 nearly black with a light, nearly white, edge. 



Sahitat — Burma to 2^ inches in length. 



Semiplotus McClellandi, Bleeker. 

 A fine specimen of this fish in excellent condition also existed in the 

 same collection, this being the first time that it has been found so far to the 

 eastward. During my recent tour in Assam, I ascertained that its distri- 

 bution is much more extensive than had been hitherto recorded. Under 

 the native name of Lah-ho-ee, it is common in the upper portions of the 

 Boreli river near Tezpur. I also obtained it near Goalpara, and from all 

 the affluents of the Brahmaputra that I visited in Upper Assam, but it is 

 generally known as the Sun-de-o-ree or Rajah mas. Fishermen assert 

 that it was termed K-ajah's fish, because all that were caught had to be 



