1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 999 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 



Madras, Vizagapatam. 



Total length, 4f inch. 



Russell counted 9 anal rays : a single individual observed at Pinang 

 had but 8. The margin of the preopercle is finely toothed, except at 

 the angle where the teeth are stronger. 



Gen. Nandus, Cuv. and Vol. 1831. 



Mouth very protractile, with velvety teeth in both jaws, on the palate 

 and vomer ; margin of preopercle and interopercle finely toothed ; spine 

 of opercle very minute. 



Nandtjs marmoratus, Cuv. and Val. 



Coius nandus, Buchan. Ham. 96, 370, PI. 30, Fig. 32. 



Nandus marmoratus, Cuv. and Val. VII, 482, PI. 207. 



{Icon.) Bedula hamiltonii, Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. II. PI. 88, Fig. 3. 

 Bedula nebulosus, Gray, Ibid. Fig. 2. 



Coius nandus, McClelland, Calc. Jour. Nat. Hist, II. 574. 



Head and body silvery or golden greenish olive, lighter on the sides ; 

 cheeks and abdomen silvery with rose-coloured or orange reflections ; on 

 the head and body large dark olive patches, edged with black dots, in 

 some disposed like irregular vertical bands ; on the cheeks two or three 

 such, radiating from the orbit ; in most a greenish black oval spot on 

 the middle of the side of the tail ; spines and fin-membranes transpa- 

 rent, minutely dotted with black, marbled with pale brownish lake and 

 greenish olive ; pectoral rays pale greenish olive, minutely dotted with 

 black ; rest of the rays pale brownish red with transversal greenish 

 black bars. Iris golden greenish olive, minutely dotted with black, with 

 a narrow golden circle round the pupil ; upper orbital margin black. 



D 13/12, C 12f, A 3/7, V 1/5, P 16, Br. VI. 



Rarely: D 12/13 or 13/11 or 14/12, C 17 or 18f, A 3/8 or 9, P 

 17 or 18. 



Habit. — Fresh water Malayan Peninsula. 



Bengal (in ponds), Sutlej, Chenaub (at Ramnuggur). 



Total length, 6 inch. 



The length of the head is about ^ of the total ; the vertical diame- 

 ter at occiput is If of the length. The eye nearly borders the profile, 

 the diameter is in the young 4^, in the adult i of the length of the 

 head ; the distance from the muzzle is 1^ diameter, from the flat mem- 



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