NEW FISHES OF INDIA. 



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single row on the palate. Fins : dorsal longer than high ; pectoral 

 extends to the tenth scale of the lateral line; caudal deeply forked. 

 Body cylindrical, tapering before and behind. Scales : 1 7 rows between 

 the occiput and the origin of the rayed dorsal fin ; those on the side 

 of the tail not keeled. Colours : brownish in the upper two thirds, dirty 

 white beneath, numerous bluish irregular spots or blotches along the 

 back and sides, in places almost forming horizontal bands; dorsal and 

 caudal white, with greyish spots constituting irregular horizontal lines. 

 Habitat. Madras, where I procured three specimens up to 7 inches in 

 length. 



It appears to be very similar to S. atlanticus, differing in the 

 upper jaw being the longer, &c. 



OSTEOCHILUS M ALAB ARICUS, Sp. nOV. 



B. III. D. 3/11, P. 19, V. 9, A. 3/5, C. 19, L. 1. 44, L. tr. 8/8. 



Length of head from \^ to \, of caudal f , height of body \ of the total 

 length. Eyes, diameter f of length of head, \\ diameter from end of 

 snout, and also apart. Dorsal and abdominal profiles about equally 

 convex. Interorbital space nearly flat. Upper jaw slightly the 

 longer. Mouth compressed, narrow, somewhat horseshoe-shaped, as 

 in some species of Barbus, and directed downwards. Lip on upper 

 jaw moderately thick, and continuous with that on the mandible, which 

 becomes thin in the mesial line and reflected from the lower jaw ; 

 no inner fold across the mandible, neither lip fringed ; no horny sub- 

 stance over lips or inside the lower jaw. Barbels absent. Fins : 

 dorsal without any osseous ray, commencing rather nearer the snout 

 than the root of the caudal, and arising somewhat in advance of the 

 ventrals, whilst it does not extend to above the anal ; its upper edge 

 is slightly concave, and the fin three fourths as high as the body below 

 it ; pectoral hardly so long as the head, and not reaching the ventrals, 

 which last extend to over the commencement of the anal ; caudal 

 very deeply forked. Scales, none along the bases of the vertical fins. 

 Lateral line, five rows of scales between it and the base of the ventral. 

 Colours : silvery grey above, becoming lighter beneath ; a dark band 

 along the middle of the body, ending in a diffused black spot at the 

 base of the caudal fin ; fins orange, except the dorsal, which has a 

 black band, commencing in the middle third of the fin, and becoming 

 narrower to its posterior end ; summit of anterior portion reddish, 

 tipped with white. 



Habitat. Vithry, in the Wynaad, where three specimens up to 6 inches 

 in length were taken. 



In none were the tubercles on the snout. 



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