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Show 240 SURGEON F. DAY ON INDIAN FISHES. [Mar. 4, fourth ray osseous, serrated, very strong, and as long as the head without the snout; caudal deeply forked. Lateral line strongly marked in its first few scales, all the rows of scales regular. Colours silvery, opercles golden. Hab. Rivers near the base of the Neilgherry Hills in Madras. I have much pleasure in naming this fish after m y esteemed friend A. C. Brisbane Neill, Esq. ROHTEE BAKERI, Sp. nOV. B. iii. D. 3/8. P. 13. V. 10. A. 3/11. L.1.44. L. tr. 8/7. Length of head from ^ to $•, of caudal \, height of body from | to f of the total length. Eyes longest transversely, diameter -| of length of head, f of a diameter from end of snout, and 1 diameter apart. Profile over nape rather concave, a considerable rise to the base of the dorsal fin. Mouth small, horseshoe-shaped ; upper jaw the longer. Barbels four, all very short. Fins: dorsal rather higher than the body, and arising midway between the end of the snout and the base of the caudal, its spine weak, as long as the head, and serrated posteriorly in almost its whole extent; caudal deeply lobed, both of equal length. Scales, 5\ rows between the lateral line and the base of the ventral fin. Colours silvery ; caudal and dorsal edged with black. Hab. Cottayam, whence I have received three specimens up to 4| inches in length, collected by the Rev. H. Baker, after whom I have named the species. SPRATELLOIDES MALABARICUS, sp. nov. B. vi. D. 14. P. 13. V. 8. A. 18. C. 17. L.1.38. L. tr. 9. Length of head, caudal fin, and height of body each f- of the total length. Eyes, diameter g of length of head, 1 diameter from end of snout, | of a diameter apart. Body compressed; abdomen neither keeled nor serrated. Gill-membranes separated. Pseudobranchiae well developed. Snout pointed ; lower jaw the longer, and prominent. The maxilla reaches to below the anterior edge of the orbit. No osseous gular plate. Teeth minute and deciduous in both jaws. Fins: dorsal commences slightly before the origin of the ventral, its anterior rays being about as long as the head, its posterior ones equalling one diameter of the orbit; the fin commences midway between the end of the snout and the base of the caudal fin, which latter is deeply forked. Lateral line absent. Colours light yellowish green superiorly, a silvery band along the side, and abdomen white. Upper caudal lobe with a bluish posterior edge, some fine black points along the back. Upper edge of eye dark green. Hab. Sea, ascending rivers in Malabar, and attaining 3 inches in length. It is not uncommon. |