1849.] 



Fishes of Souihefn India, 



SOT 



on the sides, silvery beneath ; dorsal, ventral and anal fins yellow- 

 orange ; tail yellow, margined with orange above and below, and 

 with a broad fringe of black on its posterior margin ; pectoral pale 

 yellowish. 



D. 12, A. 7- — My specimen was destroyed before I counted 

 the number of its scales, but the points noted above, and the differ- 

 ence in the colours have induced me to consider it distinct from the 

 last. I found it in rivers in Canara, and my specimen was about 8 

 inches long. 



Gohio Hamiltonii. (New Species 



Head to whole length of body as 1 to 4f, D. 11, A. 7, 40 



scales along the body and 10 or 11 in its depth. Green above, sil- 

 very beneath ; snout concave between eye and muzzle. Dorsal and anal 

 fins colorless; pectoral and ventrals, orange margined ; caudal pale 

 yellow. 



This fish, of which 1 procured some small specimens, 5 or 6 inches 

 long, in the Cavery and its tributaries, is also very closely allied to C. 

 curmuca^ and may have been mistaken for the Malabar fish by Bucha- 

 nan, and the description taken from it. I did not notice any cirri in 

 this or the last, but they may exist notwithstanding, as my only spe- 

 cimen of the first was destroyed, and my present one is in such bad 

 order that I cannot make them out. I am strengthened in the sup- 

 position of my present species not having cirri by having lately ob- 

 tained in the Bhowany, a tributary of the Cavery, a large Gohio 

 which may be identical with it, but of which unfortunately I lost 

 my only specimen. It was of large size 20 inches long, head small, 

 being to the rest of the body as 1 to 5 ; height to length as 1 to 

 3| ; 39 or 40 scales along the body in 11 rows D. 11, two first rays 

 quite simple. A 7, green above, silvery on the sides and beneath.; 

 all the fins dusky, edged with red. Should, on a further comparison, 

 this be found a distinct one I propose the name of Gohio JBovanius 

 — either this or the last however are possibly Gohio ariza, Buch., 

 described as having snout and under lip smooth, 12 rays in dorsal, 

 in other respects like ftie last, {G. pargusia). Another allied form 

 is one I shall provisionally call, 



Gohio augraoides. (New Species.) 

 Head smallr no cirri ; length of head to body as 1 to 5^— depth to 

 total length as 1 to 3 ; 44 scales along the body and 12 across ; 



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