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Show 198 SURGEON F. DAY ON NEW FISHES FROM MADRAS. [Mar. 12, stripe extending along the middle of the body to the centre of the caudal fin. Fins diaphanous. Dorsal, pectoral, and caudal stained with greyish; a deep-black mark on the dorsal fin from the base of the third to the base of the sixth branched ray. Very fine dark dots over scales, especially at their bases. An indistinct black mark on lateral line from nineteenth to twenty-first scale. Eye golden. Hab. Bangalore. I have named this species after Major Puckle, who has been good enough to collect for me about thirty species of fishes from Mysore. This has enabled me to identify many of Cuvier and Valenciennes's species, which I otherwise should not (at least at present) have been able to effect. PUNTIUS (PUNTIUS) STIGMA. Leuciscus stigma, C. & V. xvii. p. 93, pl. 489. Systomus sophore, McClelland, Asiatic Researches, xix. pp. 285, 382. B.iv. D. 3/8. P. 17. V. 9. A. 3/5. L. 1. 25. L. tr. 5/4. Pharyngeal teeth spoon-shaped, summits 5, 3, 2 / 2, 3, 5. This species has been fully described by Valenciennes and McClel-land; it only, therefore, remains to observe upon its colours and habitat. Colours. In the breeding-season the female has a scarlet line along the side of the body, and a golden spot dashed with crimson on the operculum, also a diffused badly marked spot on the side of the tail on the twenty-first and twenty-second scales of the lateral line. Dorsal fin with a black band passing aloug the base of the rays from the third to the seventh. As the breeding-season passes away the scarlet line partially, in some entirely, disappears ; but it seems that the well-marked lateral blotch is only seen in the males. In some the mark on the dorsal fin is seen with difficulty. Out of ten specimens sent from Mysore by Major Puckle, one was without the scarlet stripe, but the two black marks were very distinct; in another the lateral blotch was scarcely to be distinguished. It was pointed out by Valenciennes that the species of Puntius named sophore by Ham. Buchanan had four cirri, and that McClel-land's species had none ; consequently the fish he described was distinct. I have taken the Puntius stigma, C. & V., at Madras, also at Kurnool; it appears to be a very widely diffused species. I should observe that the first undivided ray in the dorsal fin is very minute, and liable to remain undetected. DANIO LINEATUS, sp. nov. B.iii. D. 2/7. P. 13. V. 8. A. 3/12. C.19. L. 1. 26-28. L.tr. 6. Length of specimens from 1 to Ifa inch. Length of head \, of base of dorsal \-, of base of anal fa, of cau- |