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5. SciIIZOTHORAX NOBILIS, pi. XXU, fig, 1, 2. 

 Bacoma nobilis, *McClellaud, Cal, J. N. H., vol. ii, p. 577, pi. xv, fig. 4. 



B. III. D. 3/9, P. 19, V. 11, A. 3/5, C. 19. 

 Length of head 1/4, of caudal 1/5, height of body 1/5 of the 

 total length. 



Eyes. Diameter 1/9 of length of head, 3 diameters from end of 

 snout, 2J diameters apart. 



Head elongated and compressed, upper jaw slightly the longest. 

 Operate rounded posteriorly. Cleft of mouth nearly horizontal. 

 In a fine specimen 15 inches long, from Nepaul, now in the 

 Calcutta Museum, there is no horny envelope to the lower jaw, but 

 short longitudinal bands of horny substance are present inside 

 both jaws ; these of course may have been attached to a horny 

 covering which has become lost. Rostral barbels as long as one 

 and a half diameters of the orbit, and slightly longer than the 

 maxillary ones. Lower labial fold interrupted in the middle. 



Fins. Dorsal commences midway between the eye and the base 

 of the caudal ; its spine is strong, not quite half as long as the 

 head, and posteriorly rather feebly serrated. Anal when laid fiat, 

 does not reach the caudal, which latter is deeply forked. 



Scales in tiled row moderately developed, and two thirds as long 

 as the orbit. 



The entire length of the intestinal canal, according to McClel- 

 land, is only one and two two-thirds the length of the body. 



Colours — silvery, the whole body and fins covered with numer- 

 ous small spots. 



Hah. Afghanistan and Nepaul, attaining 1 8 inches in length. 



6. ScHIZOTHORAX PLANIFRONS. 



Heckel, Fische aus Kashmir, p. 44, t. 8, fig. 2 ; *Cuv. & Yal. xvi, p. 221 ; 

 Giinther, Catal. vii,p. 163. 



B. III. D. 4/7, P. 21, V. 11, A. 2/5, C. 21. 



Length of head 2/9, of caudal 2/11, height of body 2/9 of the 

 total length. 



Eyes. Diameter 1/5 of length of head, 1| diameters from end 

 of snout and apart. 



