. 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. 798 PISHES OP INDIA. I tave named this fish after A. Brisbane Neill, Esq., to whom I am under great obligations for the valuable assistance he has always afforded me in my publications. Hahitat.—Kurrachee in Sind, out of ten specimens the longest is 2i inches. Page 332. Salaeias lineatds. Add synonym. Salarias caudoUneatus, Giinther, Pische Siidsee, ii, p. 209, t. cxvi, f. P. Page 333. Add Salaeias oortii. Blocker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. i, p. 257, f. 15, a
. 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. 798 PISHES OP INDIA. I tave named this fish after A. Brisbane Neill, Esq., to whom I am under great obligations for the valuable assistance he has always afforded me in my publications. Hahitat.—Kurrachee in Sind, out of ten specimens the longest is 2i inches. Page 332. Salaeias lineatds. Add synonym. Salarias caudoUneatus, Giinther, Pische Siidsee, ii, p. 209, t. cxvi, f. P. Page 333. Add Salaeias oortii. Blocker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. i, p. 257, f. 15, and Act. Soc. &c. Indo-Ned. iii, Sumatra, p. 39 ; Giinther, Catal. iii, p. 257. B. vi, D. 12/19-21, P. 14, V. 2, A. 23-24, 0. 13. Length of head 7, of caudal fin 7, height of body 7 to 7| in the total length. Eyes— high up, diameter i of the length of the head, 1| diameters from end of snout, which is very slightly oblique. The maxilla extends to somewhat beyond the hind edge of the orbit. A crest on the summit of the head, a fringed tentacle above the orbit and another at the nostrils. Teeth—small canines in the lower jaw. Fins—dorsal fin deeply notched almost to its base, while posteriorly it is continuous with the caudal: its anterior portion two-thirds as high as the body, and its posterior at least one-third higher: caudal rounded, its central rays being the longest. Colours—stone-colour along the back, becoming violet on the side and beneath: darker bands from the back, sometimes arranged in pairs. Anterior dorsal reddish-violet, with several undulating narrow white lines and sometimes a small black blotch between the first and second spine. Second dorsal with the white bands taking an oblique direction upwards and backwards : bluish marks or spots in its outer fourth. Caudal and anal with their outer thirds brownish. Hahitat.—Aden, the east coast of India to the Malay Archipelago. Page 334. Salaeias albogtjttatus. Add Kner, SB. Wien Ak. Ivi, 1867, f. 6; Gu
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