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Note on the Genus Bar a. 



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Colours — brownish, irregularly banded with a darker tinge, cirri 

 annulated with black. 



The three species of Indian Hara may be distinguished one froin 

 another by the following characters : — 



Hara Buchanani, Fig. 1, a.b. c, skin with blunt spinate ossicles ; 

 pectoral spine as long as the head from the base of the occipital 

 process to the end of the snout, its external spines alternately 

 directed forwards and backwards, no elongated caudal ray. 



Hara Jerdoni, Fig. 2, a. b. c, skin smooth ; pectoral spine as long 

 as from the base of the dorsal fin to the end of the snout, its exter- 

 nal spines directed backwards, no elongated caudal rays. 



Hara conta, Fig. 3, a. b. c, skin tuberculated (having smooth 

 tubercles, giving it the appearance of that of a Geckoid lizard) ; pec- 

 toral spine as long as the head, from the base of the occipital 

 process to the end of the snout, its external spines directed back- 

 wards. An elongated ray in the upper lobe of the caudal fin. 



