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[No. 1, 
F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinidae. 
snout and apart. Body strongly compressed : a slight concavity over the 
occiput. Lower jaw prominent, having a strong hook fitting into an emar- 
gination in the upper jaw when the mouth is closed. In adults there is a 
sharp spine directed forwards above the anterior superior margin of the 
orbit, and a second broader and blunter before the centre of the anterior 
orbital margin. In immature examples these spines are equally sharp. No bar- 
bels. — Fins : the dorsal commences midway between the posterior extremity 
of the orbit and the base of the caudal, its first five or six rays are in 
advance of the anal. Caudal lunate. — Lateral line : 3 1 rows of scales 
between it and the base of the ventral fin. — Colours : silvery, with an ill- 
defined lateral band, and some vertical yehow lines in the anterior half of 
the body. Dorsal and anal greyish, with reddish margins anteriorly. In 
the immature there is a dark humeral spot, and a steel-blue lateral hand goes 
to the centre of the caudal fin, which has a scarlet stripe along the last half 
of its centre. 
Hab. — Pegu ; attaining four inches in length. 
3. Damto auroliseatcs, PI. I, Fig. 1. 
Penlanvpus aurolineatus, Pay, Proc. Zool. Soo. 1805, p. 300. 
„ a/radanio, Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 219, pi. xvii, fig. 2. 
Danio malabarims, Gunther, Catal, vii, p. 283 (not Jerdon). 
B. III. D. 2/12, P. 14, Y. 7, A. 3/15, L. 1. 34—40, L. tr. 8/4. 
Length of head nearly 1/5, of caudal 1/5, height of body 1/3, of dorsal 
fin 1/7 of the total length. — Eyes : diameter 1/3 of length of head, 3/4 of 
a diameter from end of snout, 1 diameter apart. Lower jaw anterior, 
having a distinct knob at its extremity. Itostral barbels present, half as 
long as the eye. — Teeth : pharyngeal, curved, pointed 5, 4, 1/1, 4, 5. — Fins : 
dorsal commences nearer the snout than the posterior extremity of the 
caudal fin, and opposite the anal. Colours : three or four steel-blue lines pass 
along the body. 
Hal. — South Malabar, attaining 3 inches in length. 
4. Dakio lxneolatu s . 
Leuaiscus lineolatus, Blyth, J. A. 8. of Bengal, 1858, p. 289. 
Perilom/pus aflvnis, Blyth, loc. cit. 1860, p. 163. 
Danio lineolatus, Gunther, Catal. vii, p. 282. 
B. III. D. 3/10, „P. 13, V. 8, A. 3/14, C. 19, L. 1. 33, L. tr. 7i/3. 
Length of head 1/4, height of body 1/4 of the total length. — Fyes : 
diameter 2/7 of length of head, 1 diameter from end of snout. Barbels 
well developed, the rostral ones being nearly as long as the eye, and the 
maxillary one-third shorter. — Colours : a dusky spot behind the gill covers. 
