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On the Fresh Water 



[No. 35, 



D. 13, A. 7. Colors dark blueish above, golden on the sides, with 

 a dark streak from eye to tail ; all the fins dark ; pectoral, ventral, 

 and anal, tinged reddish yellow; profile rising rapidly to the dor- 

 sal ; eye near the snout ; mouth quite inferior. Its mode of colour- 

 ing reminds one of Gohio augra of Buchanan, and also of G. hico- 

 lor of McLelland, but it is very distinct. 



Gohio hangon. Buch. ? 

 Head is to the body as 1 to 4|- ; height to total length as 1 to 4 ; 

 38 scales along the body and 11 or 12 across ; D. 10, A. 7- Yel- 

 lowish green above, with greenish longitudinal lines ; silvery be- 

 neath ; fins greyish yellow, sometimes tinged reddish, snout porous. 

 This is undoubtedly the arja, or arija of the Mysore fishermen, 

 from which Buchanan must have taken the name ariza, but the spe- 

 cies he has called by that name is very evidently distinct from this 

 form. Whether my fish be identical with 0. bangon or not, must be 

 determined hereafter. It is very abundant in the Cavery and its tri- 

 butaries, and becomes more so as the river becomes more sluggish. 



Gohio limno'philus. McLelland. 

 Very closely allied to the last, and perhaps indeed identical, as 

 McLelland has hinted. 36 scales along the sides and 12 across ; 

 2 small cirri; D. 10, A. 6 ; reddish yellow above, silvery beneath ; 

 fins dusky greenish yellow — head little more than a sixth of total 

 length of body ; depth to length as I to 4|- or 5. From tanks and 

 rivers near Madras, and other parts of the Carnatic- I am not Very 

 certain about the cirri, but I think that they exist. 



Gohio Dussumierii. 

 Cirrhinus Dussumierii- C. V. 

 Head small, 6 times in the total length, height of body 4 times ; 

 muzzle thick truncated, 2 short cirri ; line of back almost straight ; 

 abdomen much rounded; eye 4 times in the head— D. 3-8, A. 2-4 — 39 

 scales along the sides in 15 rows — from Mysore. This is perhaps 

 the same as my G. hangon^ or very closely allied to it. 



I cannot help imagining that the following fishes of Colonel 

 Sykes' list belong to the present genus. 



* Cliondrastoma kaverus. Sykes. 

 No lateral line, no tubercles no cirri— sub-cylindrical— D. 12, 

 A. 8,— up to 1 foot in length — Beema river. 



