. The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Fishes. Chanda (?) setifer, (H. Buchanan's MSS. figure). B. vi, D. ii, P. 17, V. 1/5, A. f, C. 19, L. 1. 38, L. tr. 5/10. Length of head 4/17 to 1/4, of caudal 1/5, height of body 1/8 of the total length. Eyes—diameter 1/3 of length of head, nearly 1 diameter from end of snout, and 1 apart. The groove for the posterior process of the premaxillary reaches to opposite the first third of the orbit, it is posteriorly rounded and scaleless. The maxilla * Buchanan obse
. The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Fishes. Chanda (?) setifer, (H. Buchanan's MSS. figure). B. vi, D. ii, P. 17, V. 1/5, A. f, C. 19, L. 1. 38, L. tr. 5/10. Length of head 4/17 to 1/4, of caudal 1/5, height of body 1/8 of the total length. Eyes—diameter 1/3 of length of head, nearly 1 diameter from end of snout, and 1 apart. The groove for the posterior process of the premaxillary reaches to opposite the first third of the orbit, it is posteriorly rounded and scaleless. The maxilla * Buchanan observes of his Germs, Chanda, or " Silvery fishes," that " the first (Chwnda seUfer) has the strongest affinity to the Zeus msiiMator, so that all of them no doubt belong to the same genus with that fish, ajthongh I cannot help thinking that, to include them in the same genus with Zens cil/ums and Zeus faber is an unnatural arrangement" (Buchanan 1. c- p. 103), " as in the genera already described there are, as it were, certain intermediate species, so in this the two first (Chanda seUfer and C. ruconius) * * * have but little of the transparency, which forms part of the generic character" (1. c. p. 104).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Day, Francis, 1829-1889. London, B. Quaritch
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