NANDID.E. 85 



most strongly so at its angle ; sub- and interopercles with some 

 fine serrations at their approximating portions. Opercle with two 

 sharp flat spines generally bifid ; preorbital entire. Teeth outer 

 row in jaws somewhat enlarged, some specimens have merely two 

 or four teeth enlarged in the lower jaw, and standing rather in 

 front of the remainder ; the presphenoid has small teeth, all but 

 the outer row of which have rounded crowns, and there are some 

 of the same description at the root of the tongue on the epi- and 

 cerato-hyals ; villiform teeth on both superior and inferior pharyn- 

 geals. Fins dorsal spines rather stout, shorter than the rays, 

 increasing in length to the* 3rd and having a groove for their recep- 

 tion along their base, interspinous membrane somewhat deeply 

 ernarginate ; second anal spine thickest but not quite so long as 

 the third, a groove along their base ; caudal rounded. Lateral line 

 interrupted, ceasing opposite the fourth ray on the twenty-first 

 scale, commencing again in the centre of the side below the last 

 ray, 13 rows between ventral and base of dorsal. Colour rifle-green 

 with purplish reflections, fins with lighter edges ; caudal with a 

 white outer margin. In some specimens the fish is vertically 

 banded. 



Hub. Ghats of Western India, where this fish seems to prefer 

 clear and rapid streams, and to attain at least to 6 inches in length. 



830. (3.) Pristolepis fasciata. (Fig. 40.) 



Catopra fasciata, Sleeker, Batavia Nat. Tijdsch. ii, p. 65. 

 Pristolepis fasciatus, Day, Fish. India, p. 131, pi. xxxii, fig. 3 (see 

 synon.). 



D. 12-13/14-16. A. 3/8. C. 14. L.r. 30/28. L. tr. 4|/12. Csec. pyl. 2. 



Length of head from 3| to 4|, height of body 2| to 2| in the 



total length. Eyes diameter nearly 4 in length of head, \ diain. 



Fig. 40. Pristolepis fasciata. 



from end of snout, and ] \ apart. Body oblong, compressed. Pre- 

 orbital and preopercle rather strongly serrated ; fine serrations, 



