1849.] 



Fishes of Southern India. 



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Gen. Platycara. McLelland. 

 Head flat with the eyes above; ventral fins large, rounded; body not 

 compressed; caudal bifid, mouth beneath, (with short cirri,) small, 

 without teeth. 



Platycara Australis. New Species. 



Muzzle depressed, snout somewhat pointed ; eyes approximated ; 

 body greenish with irregular spots and blotches of brown and red, 

 and a series of white spots along the^sides ; fins greenish, tinged 

 with sienna red and spotted ; caudal with the lobes pointed, lower one 

 much the longest ; 4 minute cirri at end of snout, and 2 somewhat 

 fleshy short cirri, one in front of and the other behind the mouth. 

 Length about 2\ inches — D. 7, A. 6. 



I procured a single specimen of this interesting addition to Indian 

 Ichthyology in the small mountain stream that passes close by the 

 bungalow in the Walliar jungle. 



This concludes the numerous family of carps. Some of my sup- 

 posed new species of Aploc hetlus 2ind Cohitis may have been describ- 

 ed by Valenciennes in the 18th volume of the great work on Fish by 

 Cuvier and Valenciennes which I have not myself yet seen, 



Fam. Siluridce- 



No true scales ; body sometimes mailed ; strong spines frequent- 

 ly on the dorsal and pectoral fins ; 2nd dorsal (often) adipose. 



Gen. Silurus. 



One dorsal fin, small, advanced, not spiny ; anal fin very long ; 

 cirri usually long ; teeth fine, crowded. 



S'durus ruallagoo. 



Head about 5 times in total length ; eye one-seventh of length of 

 head, and with 5 diameters between them ; muzzle depressed, para- 

 bolic ; maxillary cirri reach nearly to the anal fin ; lower cirri mi- 

 nute — D. 5, A. 92, to 93— caudal lobed deeply ; the upper the 

 lowest ; of a leaden color throughout, darkest above ; dorsal and 

 caudal fins greenish dusky ; pectoral, ventral and anal reddish yel- 

 low, the latter edged with dusky ; up to 3 feet and upwards. 



Found in the rivers and tanks throughout all the south of India. It 

 is the UU of the Taniools. 



