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Show 1867.] MR. F. DAY ON INDIAN FISHES. 297 opercle, bends directly downwards to opposite the posterior extremity of the pectoral fin, it then follows the curve of the abdomen to its termination ; it consists of single tubes. Teeth. Pharyngeal teeth crooked and pointed, 5, 4, 2/2, 4, 5. Colours. Back greenish, sides silvery, with a purplish tinge along the abdomen, and a badly marked broad steel-blue stripe extending from behind the eye to the caudal fin; it is bounded superiorly and inferiorly by a narrow bright yellow band. Fins yellowish, with fine black dots, the external portions of dorsal and anal the highest. The colours vary in different places. Hab. Ootacamund Lake, Pykara, Avelanche, and Kaity streams. This is the only indigenous fish of the hills. With short dorsal fin, and an elongated ray in ventral fin. PARADANIO ELEGANS, Spec. 110V. B.iii. D. 1/3. P. 11. V.8. A. 2/23. C.19. L.l. 52. L.tr. 8/2. Length of specimens up to 3h inches. Length of head A, of pectoral \, of base of dorsal fa, of base of anal 1, of caudal nearly 5 of the total length. Height of head ^, of body |-, of dorsal g, of anal fa of the total length. Eyes. Diameter -^ of length of head, f of a diameter from end of snout, 1^ apart. Profile of dorsal aspect rises slightly to the base of the dorsal fin ; along the abdominal surface there is a regular curve from the symphysis of the lower jaw to the end of the anal fin. Body strongly compressed. Cleft of mouth deep, oblique, and reaching to nearly under the anterior margin of the orbit. Snout short. Upper jaw slightly compressed; lower jaw the longest; both covered by thin lips. Nostrils generic. Fins. Dorsal commences over the middle of the anal. Ventral with an elongated ray extending backwards as far as the middle of the anal, which last fin is highest anteriorly. Caudal lobed, the inferior lobe both largest and longest. Scales with two or three diverging striee. Base of dorsal not scaled, of anal scaled. Lateral line in single tubes ; it first curves round the base of the pectoral fin, and just beyond the ventral attains within two scales of the abdominal profile, which it follows as far as the posterior extremity of the anal, and then curves upwards to the centre of the caudal. Teeth. Pharyngeal teeth crooked at their extremity and pointed, 5,4,1/1,4,5. • Colours. Greenish, with a silvery band extending from opposite the upper margin of the opercle to the upper portion of the caudal fin. Abdomen silvery. Several irregular yellow bars pass downwards from the back "to the abdomen. Cheeks silvery. Fins diaphanous. Eyes golden. Hab. Bowany River. |