oGO PHTSOSTOMI. 



with from Si- to Gh ro-ws of scales between it and the base of the Tentral fin : 15 rows before the dorsal fin. 

 Free portion of the tail as high as long. Colours — uniform silvery, with a pinkish tinge, the scales towards the 

 back sometimes being darkest at their bases : fins reddish with light outer edges, the summit of the dorsal fin 

 sometimes black. The young have a silvery band along the side. 



McClelland mistook H. Buchanan's figure of the Gyprinus chagimio, (it was marked G. hunta) for Larbus 

 mrana, but found out his error previous to publishing the figure (which he consequently suppressed). That a 

 fish, " the same with the kunavioo of Dr. Russell," as Buchanan describes the sarana, can be identical (as 

 advanced by Dr. Giinther) with G. hunt6 is incredible. H. Buchanan in his MSS. list of fish observes, " The 

 Baranrji of the Tista is, in some places called kunti. It has a great affinity with the Curmnca which is described 

 in my account of Mysore." The C. chnrjnnio, of which the figure labelled G. kunta is the representative, is placed 

 next'to the G. cunnuca, and it is stated p. 294, " This and the following species have a great resemblance to the 

 Gyprinus cirrhosus of Bloch : but the callosities of the head are neither mentioned in Bloch's desci-iption nor 

 represented in his figure ;" showing how alike he must have considered the two to be. If G. kunta is not C. 

 chagunio, what does'it represent ? and where is the figure of char/unio ? 



B:alitat. — From Orissa, throughout Bengal, Assam, Behar and the N. W. Provinces to the Punjab, but 

 not recorded from Sind, the Deccan," Western coast, Mysore, ]\Iadras, or Burma. It attains at least 18 inches 

 in length. 



The figure of the variety B. spilnpihohis (Plate CXXXVI) is from an Assam example, 7-5 inches in 

 length : that on plate CXL. is from a Delhi specimen. 



2. Barbus clavatus. 



McClelland, Cal. Joum. Nat. Hist. 1845, p. 280, pi. 21, f. 2; Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 97. 



B. iii. D. 11(f), P. 16, V. 10, A. 8(f), C. 19, L. 1. 42, L. tr. 6/4. 



Height of the body 1/4 of the length excluding the caudal fin. Eyes— large and in the middle of the 

 length of tbe head. Snout covered with small thorny tubercles. iJar&e/s— two well-developed pairs. Fins — 

 last' undivided dorsal ray osseous, strong, serrated, and as long as the body is high. ScaUs— 11^ rows in an 

 oblique line from the base of the ventral to the dorsal. The figure shows 4^ rows between the lateral-line and 

 base of the ventral which would give &\ above the lateral-line. Gohnrs—hlxie superiorly becoming white 

 beneath : the fins pale bluish white. 



Habitat.— A. single specimen (7 inches long) was obtained fi-om a river at the base of the Sikhim 



mountains in Bengal. 



3. Barbus sarana, Plate CXXXVI, fig. 2. 



Gyprinus kunnamoo, Russell, Fish. Vizag. ii, p. 82, pi. 204. 



Gyprinus kakoo and kadoon, Russell, 1. c. p. 83. 



Gyprinus sarana. Ham. Buch. Fish. Ganges, pp. 307, 388. 



Barbus deliciosus, McClelland, Ind. Cyi3. pp. 272, 342, pi. 39, fig. 3 ; Cuv. and Val. xvi, p. 172 ; Bleeker, 



Ben", p. 60. 



Systomus immacula.tus and chrysostomus, McClelland, 1. c. pp. 284, 380, pi. 44, f. 5 ; Cuv. and Val. xvi, 



p. 409; Bleeker, Beng. p. 62. 



Barbus sarana, Cuv. and Val. xvi. p. 151 ; Bleeker, Beng. p. 60; Jerdon,M. J. L. and Sc. 1849, p. ol2 ; 

 Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 115; Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 374. 



Barbus gardonides, Cuv. and Val. 1. c. p. 156, pi. 466 ; Bleeker, Beng. p. 60, 126. 



Barbus kakus and DuvaucclU, Cuv. and Val. xvi, pp. 153, 167. 



Gyprinus McGlellandi, Cuv. and Val. xvi, p. 390. 



Barbus kakus and kadoon, Bleeker, Beng. p. 60. 



Barbus caudimarginatus, Blyth. J. A. Soc. of Beng. 1860, p. 157. 



Puntius sarana, Steind. Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ivi, 1867, p. 58. 



Barbus immaculatus and EHSsellii, Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 121. 



Pungella, Tam. : Giddi-kaoli, Durhie and Potah, Hind. : Gid-pakhe, Can. : Kannaku, Tel. : Sarana, 

 Ooriah and Beng.: Jundoori, Punj. : Po-p-pree and Kuh-nah-nee, Sind.: Se»-?iee, Assam : Nga-khon-mah-gyee 

 and Nga-cliong, Burmese. 



B. iii, D. 11(f), P. 15, V. 9, A. 8(f), C. 19, L. 1. 32-34, L. tr. 5f-6/6. 



Length of head 5 to hi, of caudal 5, height of body 3}r to 3| in the total length. iJycs— diameter 41 to 

 4^ in the length of head, 1 to 1^ diameters from the end of snout, and 2 diameters apart. Profile of the back 

 elevated. Interorbital space convex. Lower labial fold interrupted. No pores on the snout. Barbels— the 

 rostral pair about as long as the orbit, the maxillary pair longer, sometimes equaUing 1^ diameters of the orbit. 

 fj,js_dorsal commences slightly nearer the snout than the base of the caudal fin and opposite the insertion of 

 the ventral, its last undivided ray osseous, strong in the adult, finely serrated posteriorly, and with its stifi' 

 portion 2/3 as long as the head, the fin is 1/2 to 2/3 as high as the body, with its upper edge concave. Lateral. 

 ;,-„e— complete, from 3^ to 4 rows of scales between it and the base of the ventral fin : 10 to 11 rows before the 

 dorsal fin. OoZowrs— silvery, darkest superiorly, opercles shot with gold : the young have occasionally a duU 



