Schistura. 



INDIAN CYPRINID^. 



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II. — Schistura zonata, J. M. 

 t. 53, f. 1. 



Without suborbitar spines ; the body is encircled by about eleven com- 

 plete rings of green colour ; opercula broad, naked, and silvery, fins pellucid, 

 without dots, 



D.ll : P.ll : V.8 : A.5: C.17. 

 This small species was found in ponds in the Muttuc district in Upper Assam. 

 The pyloris is reflected forward so as to form the stomach into a small lunate 

 sac, on the surface of which two or three convolutions of the intestine take 

 place ; between the stomach and intestine there is a narrow stricture, pro- 

 bably a pyloric valve. Limbs of the lower jaw firmly united at the symphysis, 

 as in the Gudgeons. 



III. — Schistura rupecula, J. M. 



t. 57. f. 3. 



Without suborbitar spines ; there are about fourteen bars or zones encir- 

 cling the body like those of the last ; pectorals and ventrals round. 



D.8: P.IO : V.8: A.7: C.16. 



This species was found by Dr. Macleod in the mountains in the vicinity of 

 Simla, and is very evidently distinct from either of the adjoining species. 



IV. — Schistura ocellata, J. M. 



This is a different species from either of the accompanying, although it is 

 difficult to make the real differences appear correctly either in drawings or 

 descriptions. The fin rays are, 



D.9:P.12: V.8 : A.6: C.17. 



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