322 F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinidce. [No. 3, 



Colours. Greenish yellow along the back, with a red mark on the 

 opercle, and a scarlet stripe extending along the middle of the side. 

 A deep black mark on the dorsal from the base of the third to 

 that of the sixth branched rays. Very fine dark spots over the 

 scales especially at their bases, An indistinct black mark on the 

 lateral line from the nineteenth to the twenty-first scales. 



Hah. Bangalore, where it is said to be common. Major Puckell 

 sent me one specimen, 3 inches in length. 



C. Without barbels, (Puntius). 



a. Last undivided ray, osseous and serrated, 



42. Barbus (Puntius) apogon. 



Barbus apogon, (Kuhl) Cuv. and Val. xvi, p. 392; Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 150. 

 Systomus apogon, Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned lad. iii, p. 428. 



„ apogonoides, Bleeker, 1. c. ix, p. 150. 

 Cyclocheilichthys (anematichthys) apogon, Bleeker, Prod. Cyp. p. 378, and 

 Atl. Ich. Cyp. p. 88, t. 29, f. 2. 



„ „ apogonoides, Bleeker, 1. c. p. 379 and Atl. Icb. p. 89, t. 30, f. 3. 

 Systomus macularius ? Blyth, J. A. S. of B. 1860, p. 159. 

 Barbus macularius, *Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 150; Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, 

 p. 557. 



JVga-ta-zee and Nga-lay-toun, Burmese. 



B. III. D. 4/8, P. 17, Y. 11, A. 3/5, C. 19. L. 1. 36, L. tr. 8/7. 



Length of head 1/4 to 1/5, of caudal 2/9, height of body 1/3, 

 of dorsal fin 1/4 of the total length. 



Eyes. Diameter 2/7 of length of head, 1 diameter from end of 

 snout, \\ diameters apart. 



Body compressed, a great rise from the occiput to the base of the 

 dorsal fin. 



Pins. Dorsal commences over the ventral and midway between 

 the end of the snout and the base of the caudal, its last undivided 

 ray is strong, serrated, and rather shorter than the head. Pirst 

 three anal rays somi-osseous. Caudal deeply lobed. 



Lateral line — complete, 4 to 4|- rows of scales between it and 

 the root of the ventral. 



Colours. Silvery, each scale with a black spot at its base. 



Hah. Tenasserim and throughout Burmah to the East Indian 

 Archipelago. It attains 8 inches in leDgth. 



