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2/3 of the diameter of the orhit, the pair at the angle of the mouth thicker 
and slightly longer. — Teeth: pharyngeal, in one row, 5/o. Fins : dorsal high- 
est in front, arising midway between the end of the snout and the base of 
the caudal. Pectoral nearly reaching the ventral. Caudal lobed in its 
posterior third. — Scales : cycloid. — Lateral line : complete. Colours : dull 
olive, becoming yellowish beneath. Large brown blotches on the body. 
Dorsal fin with three rows of dull spots ; pectoral and ventral with three or 
four, anal with two, caudal with three irregular bands, and black tips. 
Ilab. — Wynaad ; 8 specimens taken up to 3| inches hi length. 
2. HoMAXOPTERA MACULATA. 
Balitora maculata, Gray and Hard., Ind. Zool. ; *Cuv, and Val. xviii, p 102. 
Platy caret mac: tlata, McClell., Ind. Cyp. pp. 299, 427, pi. 49, fig. 2. (From Gray 
and Hard.) 
„ cmisura, McClell., Cal. Jonrn. Nat. Hist, ii, p. 587, pi. 16, L 
Homaloptera maculata, Gunther, Catal. vii, 340. 
B. III. D. 3/8, P. 21, V. 11, A. 2/5, C. 17, L. L 70, L. tr. 10/7. 
Length of head 2/13, of caudal 1/5 of the total length. — Eyes : 2% 
diameters from end of snout, 1 diameter from end of opercle. Snout broad and 
depressed, with sharp margins ; rostral and maxillary barbels small. — Teeth : 
pharyngeal, conical, in one row, 15/15. — Fins : pectoral nearly reaches the 
ventral, its anterior nine rays are unbranched, as are also the first two of the 
ventral. Lower caudal lobe the longer. — Scales : absent from chest and as 
^ fur as the posterior margin of the base of the ventrals. — Colours : dark brown 
with darker blotches ; caudal banded. 
Rah . — Himalayas from about Darjeeling through Butan, Asam and 
the Khasi Hills. 
3. * Homalopteea bixxneata. 
Blyth, J. A. S. of Bengal, 1860, p. 172. 
B. III. D. 9, A. 6. 
Said to he affined to H. erythrorhina , Cuv. and 1 al., xviii, pi. 524. 
“ A minute knob on the muzzle.” — Colours : “ A narrow dark line from 
the muzzle to eye, continued behind the eye as a broad, irregular, somewhat 
zigzag band, set off laterally with whitish, and joining its opposite behind 
the dorsal fin. A corresponding but obscure band below the lateral line, 
little seen on the hind half of the body. Dorsal with a large blotch of 
black, and one small posterior spot. Caudal fin also black, with the sides of 
its base and the forking tips white (or yellow ?), but the extreme tips black. 
Pectorals, ventrals, and anal, blotched with black ; sides of body somewhat 
nigrescent.” 
Hal. — Tenasserim provinces ; the largest specimen obtained was 2f 
inches long. 
(To be continued.) 
