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Show 1869.] URGEON F. DAY ON THE FISHES OF ORISSA. 375 97. BARBUS (PUNTIUS) TICTO, II. Buch. Kudji kervndi (Ooriah). B.iii. D.f. P.15. V. 9. A.\. C.19. L. 1.23. Lvtr;J. Lateral line incomplete. In some specimens the fins are black. Hab. Rivers and tanks. 98. BARBUS (PUNTIUS) PHUTUNIO, II. Buch. Kudji kerundi (Ooriah). B.iii. D.f. P.15. V. 9. A.\. C.19. L. 1.20-23. L. tr. 8-10. The dorsal ray in some specimens, apparently in all in Orissa, undergoes a very curious change in this speciis. Serrated in the young, the teething decreases as age advances, so that, when the fish is about 2 inches in length the ray is quite smooth. This I do not find to be the case in specimens from Burmah, five fine ones of which are in the Calcutta Museum, up to 2 inches in length. Their lateral line has 23 scales, and their lateral transverse 5/5. Mr. Blyth remarked upon these specimens in the ' Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng.' 1860, p. 159, considering them, and I believe correctly, to be of this species. Dr. Gunther has named some specimens from Ceylon B. cumingii and B. nigrofasciatus, the one having two, the other three vertical bands, a very common occurrence in this species -adding also that the latter have one more row of scales, and are scarcely striated, which is not the case in those he has seen of the former. Dr. Bleeker appears to have considered the Ceylon and Indian forms identical; but, without comparing specimens from the two localities, it must be exceedingly difficult to offer an opinion, especially as this fish is subject to considerable variations, and the Indian form does not appear to be in the British-Museum collection. Some of m y Orissa specimens have six striae on each scale, others four, whilst in some no striae are observable. Many have twenty-one rows of scales on the body. Dorsal ray entire. 99. BARBUS (PUNTIUS) STIGMA, CUV. & Val. Systomus sophore, M'Clelland. Puntius modestus, Kner. Patia kerundi (Ooriah). B.iii. D. 3/8. P. 17. V. 9. A. 3/5. C.19. L. 1. 25. L. tr. 5/4. Vert. g. Kner's fish shows a coloration which is very common, denoting the specimen to be out of season, in bad health, or that it has been macerated some time. I gave m y reasons, in the P. Z. S. for 1868, p. 198, for not accepting Dr. M'Clelland's fish as identical with Hamilton Buchanan's. In the old collection of the fishes of the Asiatic Society of |