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8. J^eMac^etks (?«en,i;iert, D. 10-11 Reticulated with brown. Caudal forked. NeUgherries 

 ,, .,J:. ^^^<^^^'^'>^ sermwrmatus, D. 10-11. Irregular spots and bars on the body and fins Caudal forked 

 Neilgnemes. 



10. Nerm^h&ihis corica, D. 10. About 13 blotches along the side. Caudal forked. N.B. Bengal 



11 Nermcheilm rupcola D 9-11 Eleven to 17 brown bands on the body, as wide or wider than the 

 ground colour. Dorsal and caudal banded or spotted. Caudal forked. Himalayas 



12. NemMl^srmnt<mus,B. 9-10 Eleven to 12 vertical bands. Caudal emarginate. Himalayas. 



13. Nemach^ilm stnatus, D. 11-12. Sixteen to 20 vertical bands, wider than the ground colour 

 Caudal emarginate. Wynaad. ° 



■A .•^ f^^^;f'''^^fif'^^^*^'^J>- 10-. Snout compressed, eye small; numerous vertical bands, 

 widest in last 1/2 of body. Caudal lobed. Darjeelmg and Assam. 



15. Nem^heilMs Denisonu, D 10 Mouth of moderate width. Nine to 12 vertical bands wider than 

 the ground colour. Caudal lobed. Southern India and the Deccan. 



16. Nemacheilus wtostigma,!) 10. Snout compressed: eye of moderate size. Ten to 14 vertical 

 bands wider than the ground colour. Caudal lobed. Ceylon. 



17 Nem^heilm zonalterncms, D. 11. Ten to 11 vertical bands, with intermediate ones superiorly. 

 Dorsal and caudal spotted. Caudal entire. Tenasserim provinces. 



18. NmtMheilMs Ladacensis, D. 10. Sixteen to 18 interrupted and sinuous bands. Caudal lobed or 

 emarginate. Tibet. 



IP. Nenuwheilus zonata, D. 9. Eleven to 15 dark zones encircle the body, which are not half the 

 width of the ground colour. Caudal forked. Assam, Jumna and Ganges rivers, and Orissa. 



20. Nemacheilus cmcticauda, D. 10. Ten brown zones encircle the body, usually wider than the 

 ground colour. Caudal slightly forked. Upper Assam and Burma. 



21. NemacheUus tnangularis, D. 10. Seven black-edged angular bands on the body. Caudal 

 emarginate. Travancore. 



22. Nemacheilus smona, D. 10-11. Ten to 12 very narrow white bands. Caudal slightly emarginate. 

 Bengal and N.W. Provinces. ^ 



23. Nemacheilus Bemaaii, D. 10. Dark bands, wider than the interspaces. Caudal forked. Cossie 

 river and Bowany. 



24. Nemacheilus spihpterus, D. 9-10. Eleven to 15 irregular bands. Caudal slightly emarginate. 

 Himalayas, Assam and Cochin China. 



25. Nemacheilus marmoratus, D, 9. Mottled with brown. Caudal entire. Cashmere. 



26. N&macheilus StoKczkm, D. 9. Marbled with brownish black. Caudal emarginate. Head waters of 

 Indus, also Tibet. 



27. Nemacheilus Blythii, D. 9. Brownish. Caudal forked. India ? 



28. Nemacheilus Butamensis, D. 9. Caudal rounded. Boutan. 



29. Nemacheilus gracilis, D. 9. Brownish. Caudal emarginate. Head waters of Indus, 



30. Nemacheilus twrio, D. 8, (10 ?) Spotted and blotched. Caudal emarginate. Assam. 



31. Nemacheilus guttatus, D. 8. Dark blotches. Caudal entire. Upper Assam. 



a. With eight barbels. 



1. Nemacheilus Evezardi, Plate CLIII, fig. 11. 



B.iii,9(f),P. 12,V.8,A. 7(1), C. 17. 



Length of head 6|, of caudal 5, height of body 6 in the total length. Eyes — ^just before the middle of 

 the length of the head and rather minute, about 3 diameters from the end of the snout and the same apart. 

 Head broad, its width equalling its length without the snout, which is rounded. No spine on the head. 

 Barbels — well developed, one pair of nasal, reaching to opposite hind edge of the eye: two pair of 

 rostral, and one maxillary pair. Fins — dorsal commences opposite to the ventrals and midway between the 

 anterior margin of the orbit and the base of the caudal ; upper edge of dorsal fin slightly convex ; pectoral 

 longer than the head, and reachihg three quarters of the distance to the base of the ventral. Caudal rounded. 

 Scales — very minute. Lateral-Une — indistinct. Colours — greenish, with small dark blotches having a vertical 

 direction, a dark spot at the base of the caudal fin, which has four V-shaped bands : some spots on dorsal 

 fin : outer half of pectoral dark. 



Habitat. — Poona. A single specimen received amongst a collection which Colonel Evezard assisted in 

 procuring. The example is figured life size. 



6. With six barbels. 



2. Nemacheilus pavonaceus, Plate CLIII, fig. 12. 



Cobitis jpavonaoea, McClelland, Ind. Cyp. pp. 305, 437, pi. 52, fig. 1; Cuv. and Val. xviii, p. 37; Bleeker, 

 Beng. p. 70. 



