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F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinidos. 
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diameter from end of snout, 1^ diameters apart. Abdominal profile more 
convex tlian the dorsal one. Lower jaw anterior, with a slight knob at its 
extremity ; a pair of short rostral barbels, and sometimes rudimentary maxil- 
lary ones. — Teeth : pharyngeal, crooked, pointed, 5, 4, 2/2, 4, 5. — Fins : dorsal 
commences midway between the end of the snout and the middle of the 
caudal fin, it extends to above the fourth or fifth anal ray. Caudal emarginate 
in its last fourth. — Lateral line : curved downwards in the pectoral region. — 
Colours : back greenish, sides silvery, with a purplish tinge along the abdomen; 
a badly marked broad, steel-blue stripe, extending from behind the eye to the 
caudal fin and bounded above and below by a narrow yellow edging. 
Sab . — Pavers on Neilgherry Hills ; attaining 3 | inches in length. 
8. Daisho ostkograimics. 
Perilampus osteographus, McClelland, Ind. Cyp., pp. 289, 392, pi. 45, fig. 3, 
(erroneously numbered, pi. 56, fig. 9,) *Cuv. and Tal. xvi, p. 468. 
? Chela alburna, Heckel, Fiscke Kasclimir, p. 390, c. fig. 
Perilmnpus Malabaricus, Jerdon, M. J. L. & S. 1819, p. 325, (Male). 
„ Canarensis, Jerdon, 1. c. p. 325, (Female). 
? „ Mysoricm, Jerdon, 1. o. p. 325. 
? Danio albumus, *Guntlier, Catal. vli, p. 283. 
„ micronema, Bleeker, Mem. Soc. Holl. Haarlem, 1864, Ceylon, p. 19, t. 4, 
fig. 2 ; Giinthor, Catal. vii, p. 282 ; Day, Proc. Zool. Soo. 1869, p. 560 ; 
1870, p. 374. 
„ lineolatus, Bleeker, 1. c. p. 19, fig. 3. 
Deva/rio cyanotcenia, *Bleeker, Prod. Cyp p. 283. 
Pamdanio aurolmeatus, Day, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 296. 
B. III. D. 2/11, P. 15, Y. 8, A. 3 r± C. 19, L. 1. 35—37, L. tr. 7 i/3. 
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Length of head 2/11, of caudal 2/11, height of body 2/7, of dorsal fin 
1/8 of the total length. — Fyes : diameter 1/5 of length of head, 1 diameter 
■from end of snout. Itostral barbels half as long as the orbit, maxillary 
ones very short. In some specimens the latter are entirely absent. — Colours : 
back steel-blue ; some irregular vertical yellow lines on the fore-part of the 
body, and three or four blue bands along the sides, the central ones 
coalescing, so as to form a broad bluish band down to the middle of the 
caudal fin. 
Sab. — India and Ceylon ; attaining 6 inches in length. 
• 9. Dasio A'QurriNXATirs, 
Perilampus oequipinnahis, McClelland, Ind. Cyp. p. 393, pi. 60, f. 1. 
Fteropsarion cequipinnatus, *Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 285. 
B. III. D. 2 P. 17, Y. 8, A. - 2 ■ , C. 19, L. 1. 32-34, L. tr. 1 . 
10 12 —14 3£ 
Length of head 1/5, of caudal nearly 1/5, height of body 1/4 of the 
total length. — Fyes : diameter 2/7 of length of head, 1 diameter from end of 
snout. Bostral barbels extend to the middle of the orbit, the maxillary ones 
