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3. BOTIA BYMENOPHYSA. 

 Cobitis hymenojphysa, Bleeker, Nat. Tyd. Ned. Ind. iii, p. 602. 

 Hymenophyso; MacclellandA, Bleeker, Cyp. Prod. p. 63. 



Botia hymenophysa, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. Cypr. p. 6, t. i, f . 2 ; Giinther, Cat. vii, p. 368. 

 JSFga-tha-lay-doh and Shoay-zayay, Barmese. 



B. III. D. -1 V. 8. A. 2/6. 



11—13 ' 



Length of head nearly 1/4 of the total length. Eyes — slightly behind 

 the middle of the length of the head. Suborbital spine small, only reaching 

 to below the middle of the eye. Barbels six. Colours brownish, with eleven 

 darker cross bands. 



Sab. — The northern portions of British and also Upper Barma. 



4. Botia Almokhje. 



Gray, Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 8 ; Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 367. 



Botia grandis, Gray and Hardw. Ind. Zool. ;* Cuv. and Val., xviii, p. 86 ; McClell. 

 Cal. J. N. H., ii, p. 586. 



B. III. D. 12. V. 8. A. 8. 



Length of head 1/4, height of bod} 7 " nearly 1/4 of the length, excluding the 

 caudal fin. Fyes hi the middle of the length of the head, 2 diameters apart. 

 Snout pointed, half as long as the head. Suborbital spine extending nearly or 

 cniite to behind the posterior margin of the orbit. Barbels eight. Free 

 portion of the tail as deep as long. Fins ; — dorsal commences midway between 

 the end of tbe snout and the base of the caudal. Colours ; — body reticulated 

 with brown, the yellow ground colour being broken up into spots ; all the 

 fins with more or less regular brown cross bands, three or four on each 

 caudal lobe, three across the anal fin, and about six across the pectoral. 

 Sab. — Almorah. 



5. Botia eosteata. 

 Giinther, Catal., vii, p. 367. 



B. III. D. 12, P. 14, V. 8, A. 8. 



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

 Eyes, — diameter 2/15 of length of head, 4 diameters from end of snout ; 

 interorbital space not quite ecpial to 2 diameters of the orbit. Snout pointed, 

 longer than the remaining portion of the head. Suborbital spine not 

 extending to below the posterior margin of the orbit. Barbels eight. 

 Depth of free portion of tail 1\ in its length. Fins ; — dorsal arises midway 

 between the posterior margin of the orbit and the base of the caudal, which 

 last has sharp lobes. Colours ; — body with irregular and partly confluent 

 brown cross bands, which enclose variously sized round yellowish spots. 

 Dorsal and anal fins with two, pectoral, ventral, and each lobe of the caudal 

 with three, black cross bands. 



Sab. — Bengal and Assam. 



