16G Report on some Fishes received jrom the fitting Biver. [No. 2, 



developed. Body imperfectly banded, shewing about seven irregular 

 transverse bands, which are double or dark only on their borders and 

 more or less broken and confluent. Three distinct lines of spots on 

 the dorsal, besides its dusky tip : three also on the forked caudal, 

 besides the base and tip : five in all on the pectorals ; two on the 

 ventrals ; and two (indistinct) on the anal. Colours black and gold 

 in the recent specimen, as in the various affined species ; the markings 

 tending to assume the spotted appearance proper to B. geandis. 

 The fin-rays are alike in both. 



D. 10.— A. 6.— P. 13 or 14.— V. 8.—0. 19. 



Length of specimen 5f in. Height of body 1 in. ; at base of tail 

 nearly f in. From Dorjiling: presented by the late Dr. Wallich. 



3. B. histrionic A, nobis, n. s. A species of very remarkable 

 beauty, similar to the last in form but having the eight cirri still 

 less developed. Only five black bands on the body, the first of which 

 encloses the gill-covers and the third descends from base of dorsal : 

 another crosses the forehead and eyes : another, again, passes from 

 before each eye to the cleft of the mouth ; and the medial portion of 

 the face is also black to the muzzle. The bands of the body are 

 broad and subregular in shape, each containing a pale round spot at 

 the lateral line and another on the ridge of the back. Dorsal fin 

 with one broad interrupted black band, and some black also at base. 

 Pectorals, ventrals, and anal, each with two black bands ; and the 

 caudal also with two broad bands and a black tip to each lobe. Fin- 

 rays as in the two preceding species ; and the markings exhibit a 

 sort of link between those of B. nebttlosa and of B. geta and B. 

 daeio. Length 4-| in. Tenasserim. 



II. — Stnceossus, nobis, n. g. Like Botia., but more compressed, 

 with similar forked tail ; the head much compressed, small, elongated, 

 and tapering to the muzzle, which terminates in one flat filament 

 that ramifies into four ; two cirri only on the lower jaw : eyes placed 

 high, but laterally ; and nostrils midway between the eyes and 

 muzzle. A forked spine anterior to the eye, of which the second 

 prong is more developed. 



1. S. Beedmoeei, nobis, n. s. (Probably Schistura grandis apud 

 McClelland, from the Khasya mountains, C. J. N. H. II, 58b'.) 

 Length 5\ in., by 1^ in. deep at dorsal fin. Eight distinct lateral 



