1872.] F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinidce. 179 



6. Botia Berdmorei. 

 Syncrossus Berdmorei, Blyth, J. A, S. of Bengal, 1860, p. 166. 

 Botia Berdmorei, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1869, p. 549. 



B. III. D. 3/9, R 13, V. 8, A. 2/5, C. 17. 



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

 length. Eyes ; diameter 1/5 of length of head, 2 diameters from end of snout 

 and apart. Suborbital spine damaged in the unique example. Barbels 

 eight. Fins ; dorsal commences midway between the snout and the posterior 

 margin of the anal fin. Colours, brownish, with a leaden hand alorig the 

 side. Dorsal and caudal barred in spots. An ocellus at the upper margin 

 @f the base of the caudal fin. 



Sab. — Darjiling and Bengal generally. 



7. Botia. histrionica. 



Blyth, J. A. S- of Bengal, 1860, p. 166; Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 550. 



B. III. D. 2/8, P. 15, V. 8, A. 2/5, C. 19. 



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

 Eyes ; diameter 1/5 of length of head, 2\ diameters from end of snout, 2 

 diameters apart. Suborbital spine not very strong, extending to opposite 

 the posterior margin of the orbit. Barbels, eight. Fins ; dorsal commences 

 nearer to the caudal than to the end of the snout. Caudal forked. Colours, 

 olive, with five dark vertical bands on the body, and two or three on the 

 head. All the fins with two broad brown bands. 



BZab. — Pegu. 



Genus. Jerdonia* Bay. 

 Flatacanfhus, sp. Day. 



Body elongated, and moderately compressed. Eight barbels, two of which 

 are mandibular. A free, erectile, bifid, suborbital spine. Borsal fin long 

 (twenty -seven branched rays) r commencing before the ventrals ; the internal 

 ray of the pectoral fin modified into a flat osseous spine j Gaudal slightly 

 emarginate. 



Geographical distribution. Madras Presidency. 



The sotole species.. 

 1. Jerdortia maculata, D. 3/27 r A. 3/6. 3Iadrasi 



1. Jerdonia macttlata. 

 PlataccmtfMS maeulatus, Day, Proa. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 941, and 1870, p. 700. 

 B. III. D. 3/27, P. 5/1, Y. 8, A. 3/6, C. 21. 



Length of head 2/11, of caudal 1/5, height of body 1/6 of the total 

 length. Eyes ; diameter 1/6 of length of head, two diameters from end of 

 snout. Dorsal profile ascends to the commencement of the dorsal fin. Sub- 

 orbital spine reaches to beneath the anterior third of the orbit. Scales, small, 



* This name has been also applied in Conchology and Ornithology, [Editor.~] 

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