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On the Fresh Water 



[No. 35, 



inches long. Color reddish yellow, with 4 black bands, sometimes 

 interrupted, on the sides ; viz., one behind eye, one beneath the 

 dorsal fin, another between the dorsal and caudal fins, and the 

 fourth close to the tail. 



This is an active little fish found in small shoals in all the streams 

 of Malabar beyond the reach of the tides, and in the higher branches 

 of the streams that run into the Cavery. It lives chiefly on vege- 

 table matter, but will also take worms, &c. I have kept it alive for 

 some months, and I observed it to be extremely active and pugna- 

 cious. 



Gen. Gdbio. 



Dorsal fin short, placed opposite the ventral, without spines ; 

 lips thin; lower jaw shortest; some have 2 cirri, others entirely 

 without them. 



Gdbio cur muc a. (Buch.) 



Head very long, being one-fourth of the length of the whole body, 

 furnished with some mucous pores on its snout ; 2 long cirri; eye 

 distant from muzzle ; 40 scales along its body, with 12 rows in its 

 depth, D. 11, A. 8. Color green above, silvery beneath. Dorsal 

 and pectoral fins, reddish white; ventral colourless, with the two 

 first rays reddish ; anal colourless ; tail greenish, lips bright orange, 

 ended and margined with black. 



My specimens correspond so exactly with Buchanan's figure that 

 I cannot doubt their identity; but I imagine that he has either made 

 some error about its locality, or has confounded two allied species. 

 My specimens are from the rivers of Palghat, and Ariacode in South 

 Malabar, where it is very common, and I have as yet seen it in no 

 other locality, and certainly it is not a common fish in Mysore or I 

 must have seen it. Buchanan I may mention passed over the very 

 locality whence my specimens were obtained in his journey through 

 Mysore, &c. and might probably have had his drawing taken there, 

 and made his description from some other species. The orange and 

 black tipped caudal seems to be a permanent mark, as I have seen 

 it in fish 2 inches long, and in all up to a foot and more. 



Gdbio Canarensis. (New Species.) 

 Very closely allied to the last; appears to diflfer in its shorter 

 head, which is to the whole length as 1 to 4|- ; its depth is as 1 to 3^. 

 The distance of eye from muzzle is less. Color green above, golden 



