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Fauna of the Chilka Lake : Fish. 



435 



8 



2 

 23 



3 



specimens Rambha 



,, Rambha Bay 



,, Satpara 



Do. 



ig-xi-14, measuring 87 to 123 mm. 

 February, 1914, „ 79 mm. and 85 mm. 



March, 1914, 

 September, 1913, 



1 

 2 



44 mm. to 85 mm. 



22 mm., 24 mm. 

 26 mm. 



and 



170 mm. 

 89 mm. and 111 mm. 



specimen South-eastern corner of the lake 



specimens South end of the lake . . 21-31-VÜ-13, 



Distribution : — Seas, estuaries and tidal waters of Sind, Bombay, Madras, Orissa, 

 Bengal, Assam and Burma ; also of Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago. 



Macrones vittatus (Bloch). 



1785. Silurus vittatus, Bloch, Ausl. Fisch., t. ccclxxi, fig. 2. 



1801. Silurus vittaus, Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichthy., p. 387. 



1822. Pimelodus carcio, Hamilton Buchanan, Fish. Gang., pp. 181 and 377. 



1842. Pimelodus indicus, McClelland, Cal. J own. Nat. Hist., II, p. 584. 



1849. Bagrus afftnis, Jerdon, Mad. Journ. Lit. Sc, XV, p. 338. 



1878. Macrones vittatus, Day, Fish. Ind., p. 448, pi. xcviii, fig. 3, and pi. xcix, fig. 4. 



1889. Macrones vittatvis, Day, Faun. Brit. Ind., Fish., I, p. 157. 



There are altogether thirty-five specimens of this species in the collection all 

 from the main area of the lake. The species appears to be restricted more to the 

 western edge and the north-western corner of the lake as the distribution list given 

 below will show : — 



7 specimens Off Barnikuda 



11 

 5 

 3 

 9 



Near Barnikuda (inside lake) 



Barkul (Prawn traps) 



Off Kalupara ghat (if miles) 



About eight miles south-east of Kalupara ghat 



6-ix-i4, measuring 40 mm to 

 60 mm. 



6-ix-i4, 

 21-IX-14, 

 15-IX-14, 

 i6-ix-i4, 



55 mm. to 

 70 mm. 



44 mm. to 

 80 mm. 



37 mm. to 



57 mm - 



38 mm. to 



58 mm. 



This freshwater Macrones in all probability breeds in the lake after the rains. 

 It is not a casual visitor like the other freshwater Macrones, i.e., Macrones cavasius 

 (H.B.), of which there is only one specimen in the collection. 



In the specimens of M. vittatus the ventral fin reaches the anal fin and the anal 

 papilla is more often present than not. The tips of the caudal fin are black and the 

 rest of the fin white. It is a much smaller fish than Macrones gulio (H.B.) which is 

 the most numerous Macrones in the lake. 



Distribution : — Throughout the fresh waters of India, Ceylon, Siam and Tranquebar. 



1822. 

 1822. 

 1838. 



Family CYPRINIDAE. 

 Subfamily CYPRININAE. 

 Genus CIRRHINA, Cuvier. 

 Cirrhina latia (Hamilton Buchanan). 



Cyprinus latius, Hamilton Buchanan, Fish. Gang., pp. 345 and 393. 



Cyprinus gohama, id., ibid., pp. 346 and 393. 



Barbus diplochilus, Heckle, Fische aus Kasmir, p. 53, t. x, fig. 1. 



