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Habitat. — Southern Ceylon. The example figured (life-size) is from a specimen in the British 

 Museum. 



59. Barbus guganio. 

 Cyprinus guganio, Ham. Buch. Fishes, C4anges, pp. 338, 339, 392. 

 Leuciscns guganio, Cqv. and Val. xvi, p. 4-15 ; Bleeker, Beng. p. 08. 

 Chcgani, Beng. 



B. iii, D. 10(1), P. 12, V. 9, A. 7. 



CvpRiNus Guganio {H. B.'s MS. figure.) 



" Head oval, small, blunt and dotted. Mouth small. The jaws protrude in opening, the upper is the 

 longest. * * The eyes are far forwards on the sides of the head and large." Fins — the dorsal is near the 

 middle, its osseous ray is strong and serrated. Scales — large and firmly adherent. Lateral-line — incomplete. 

 Colours — the back dotted. 



Habitat. — Gangetic provinces and Assam. It scarcely exceeds an inch and a half in length. This 

 species is evidently allied to Barbus anibassis, p. 576. 



b. Osseous dorsal ray entire. 

 60. Barbus stigma, Plate CXLI, fig. 5. 



Cyprinus sophore, Ham. Buch. Fish. Ganges, plate xix, fig. 86 (not pp. 310, 389.) 



Systomus sophore, McClell. Ind. Cyp. pj). 285, 382 ; Bleeker, Beng. p. 62 ; Jerdon, M. J. L. and S. 1849, 

 p. 316 (not Ham. Buch.) 



Leuciscus stigma and sulphureus, Cuv. and Val. xvii, pp. 93, 96, pi. 489; Bleeker, Beng. p. 68; Jerdon, 

 1. c. p. 317. 



Leuciscus Buvaucelii, Cuv. and Val. xvii, p. 95, pi. 49l ; Bleeker, Beng. p. 66. 



Cyprinus sophore, Cuv. and Val. xvi, p. 388. 



Systoimis Buvaucelii, Bleeker, Prod. Cyp. p. 



Barbus Buvaucelii, Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 151. 

 Funtins modestus, Kner, Novara Fische, p. 348, t. 15, f. 3. 

 Barbus sophore and modestus, Giinther, Catal. vii, pp. 152, 156. 

 Barbus stigma, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 198, 1869, p. 375. 



Chadu-perigi, Tel. : Fatia-lcerundi, Ooriah : Katcha-karawa and Pottiah, Hin. : Katch-lcarawa, Can. : 

 Nga-kJcoon-ma, Burm. 



B. iii, D. 11-12(^3^), P. 17, V. 9, A. 8(f), C. 19, L. 1. 23-26, L. tr. 4^-5/5, Vert. 15/14. 



Length of head 5, of caudal 5, height of body S^ to 3| in the total length. Eyes — diameter 3i to 4 in 

 length of head, 1/2 to 1 diameter from end of snout, 1-i- to 2 diameters apart. Dorsal profile much more convex 

 than that of the abdomen, and a little concave over the occiput. Upper jaw slightly the longer. Lower labial 

 fold interrupted. Barbels — absent. Teeth — pharyngeal, crooked, 5, 3, 2/2, 3, 5. Fins — dorsal 1/2 to 2/3 as 

 high as the body, its last undivided ray osseous, rather weak or of moderate strength, entire, as long as the 

 head without the snout, or even less ; it commences rather in advance of the insertion of the ventral, and 

 midway between the end of the snout and the base of the caudal. Lateral-line — complete, 3 to 3|- rows of 

 scales laetween it and the base of the ventral fin : 8 to 9 rows before the dorsal fin. Occasionally in the N.W. 

 Provinces and Bengal specimens occur with 1. 1. 27. Free portion of tail as high as long. Colours — silveiy, 

 with a scarlet lateral band at some seasons, and a dark mark across the base of the middle dorsal rays, this last 

 being occasionally absent. A round black blotch, more or less distinct, at the root of the caudal fin. 



The type of L. Buvaucelii is still in good preservation at Paris, and is this species. 



Habitat. — Sind, throughout India and Burma as high as Mandalay. As food it is bitter. In January, 

 1868, I found 1850 developed ova in one female fish at Madras. It attains at least 5 inches in length. 



61. Barbus chrysopterus, Plate CXLIII, fig. 6. 

 Systomus chrysopterus, McClell. Ind. Cyp. pp. 285, 383 ; Bleeker, Beng. p. 60. 



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