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Show 1888.] MR. F. DAY ON THE FISHES OF INDIA. 263 the caudal fin; the height of its longest ray equals two thirds of the body, and is rather more than those in the anal fin, which latter is not united to the caudal. Colours : with about ten broad vertical bands, extending from the base of the dorsal to the anal fins, separated from one another by a very narrow white line. Dorsal and anal fins externally black-edged, and the membranes studded with fine brown spots. Caudal light-coloured. Hab. Ceylon. SALARIAS SINDENSIS, sp. nov. B. vi. D. 13/20. P. 14. V. 2. A. 23. C. 12. Length of head 5, height of body 5 in the total length. Eyes situated high up near the dorsal profile, diameter | of the length of the head. Body strongly compressed, profile from above the orbit to the end of the snout oblique. The height of the head equals its length excluding the snout. The posterior extremity of the maxilla reaches to beneath the front edge of the eye. No tentacles or crest on the head. Teeth well developed large posterior canines. Fins : dorsal not notched, but highest posteriorly, where the longest rays equal half the height of the body, anal not quite so high as the soft dorsal; dorsal, anal, and caudal rays unbranched. The dorsal and anal fins not quite connected to the caudal. Colours : olivaceous ; four wide brown bands on the head, the three anterior of which encircle it; about twelve vertical bands on the body more or less distinct, but more marked at the base of the dorsal fin. Dorsal fin with a dark mark along its anterior two thirds ; anal black-edged, each ray tipped with pure white. In one there appear to be marks of some narrow horizontal bands having existed along the front half of the body. Hab. Three specimens from Kurrachee in Sind. SALARIAS NEILLI, sp. nov. B. vi. D. 12/17. P. 13. V. 2. A. 19. C. 10. Length of head 4|, height of body 4\ in the total length. Eyes situated high up, near the dorsal profile, 4 diameters in the length of the head, 1 diameter from the end of the snout, and \ a diameter apart. Frontal profile very steep, the head as high as it is long, the maxilla reaches to beneath the last third of the eye. A fringed supraorbital tentacle about twice as long as the eye; a small fringed one at the nostril; no crest on the head. Teeth : a very large curved canine posteriorly in the lower jaw, and a smaller curved one in the upper. Fins: spinous portion of dorsal fin lower than the rayed part, the notch between the two parts of the fin well marked ; the longest dorsal rays are equal to half the height of the body of the fish ; neither the dorsal nor the anal fin are attached to the caudal, which latter is somewhat wedge-shaped, and its rays are branched. Colours : olive, with seven or eight short dark bands descending from the dorsal fin down the first third of the body ; some dark bands radiate from the eye; a large black blotch below 19* |