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trophize it in a popular epigrammatic stanza (" pantun,") quoted by 

 Colonel James Low. (Dissertation on Pinang, &c. p. 181.) 



Gen. Chanos, (LacSp. 1803) Valenciennes, 1846. 



(Lutodeira, [v. Hasselti] Ruppell, 1828.) 



Mouth toothless ; dorsal single ; pectorals and ventrals enclosed by 

 elongated scaly appendages ; on each side of the deeply cleft caudal 

 two scaly semilunar laminae, each horizontally fixed to the upper and 

 lowermost of the short, horizontal central rays ; abdomen rounded ; 

 inside of oesophagus, lined by a spiral ridge the sides of which with 

 numerous rounded papillae, the margin with distant elongated papillae ; 

 outside of oesophagus marked by a corresponding spiral linear impres- 

 sion ; numerous appendicula coecopylorica ; .intestinal canal very long. 



Chanos pala, (Cuvier.) 



Russell, CCVII. Palah Bontah.* 



Cyprinus (Leuciscus) pala, Cuv. R. A. II. 276 ('). 



Chanos nuchalis, Cuv. and Val. XIX. 197. 



(Adult.) Head above and back glossy intense blue ; sides above 

 the lateral line lighter, silvery with green reflections, becoming paler 

 immediately beneath the line ; rest of the sides and abdomen silvery 

 white ; lips pale brownish ; cavity of the mouth and tongue bluish 

 white sparingly dotted with black ; sides of the head shining silvery 

 with lilac and rose-coloured reflections ; dorsal and caudal rays greyish 

 white, and as well as their pale brownish membrane minutely dotted 

 with brown ; both fins broadly edged with blackish ; the caudal semi- 

 lunar laminae pale horn-colour ; pectorals and ventrals white, with the 

 anterior half of their external surface powdered with blackish brown, 

 their elongated scaly appendages shining silvery; anal white, ante- 

 rior half sparingly dotted with black. Iris silvery, orbital half pale 

 brownish. 



(Young.) Differs by the hyaline fins, of which the dorsal and caudal 

 are but sparingly dotted with brown. 



* In Mr. Jerdon's memoir " On the Fresh Water Fishes of Southern India, 1 " 

 in the Madras Journal, Vol. XV p. 344, the author refers a species of Albula 

 (" Butirinus maderaspatensis, Jerdon") to Russell, No. CCVII. As the latter 

 belongs to a genus very distinct from Albula (Butyrinus, vide infra), Russell's 

 species cannot be identical with " Butyrinus mailer aspatensis." 



