272 nrnMA, its people axd productioxs. 



SuborTpitiil ring wide, four-fifths as wide as the uncovered cheek below. Silvery. 

 Grows to 6 inches and is good eating. 

 Burma. 



C. B.iCAiLA, Ham. Buch. 

 B. iii. ; D. 9 ; P. 13; Y. 9; A. 1315; C. 19. 



Suborbital ring broad, nearly covering the cheek. Silvery. Grows to 7 inches. 

 Maulmain (fide Giinther). 



Snb-famUy COBITIDIXA. 



Pseudobi-ancbitc none. Body elongated, oblong, compressed or cylindrical, but 

 never depressed. Snout and lips fleshy. !Mouth small, inferior, with 6 to \'l barbels. 

 Scales small and much buried in mucus. Air-vessel wholly or partly inclosed in bone. 



A. An erectile spine near the orlit. 

 BoTiA, Gray. 



Eye with a free circular eyelid. Barbels 6 to 8. Four nasal and two maxillaiy 

 (two mandibular). No scales on the head. 



B. Berdmorei, Blyth. 



B. iii. ; D. 1315; P. 13; V. 8 ; A. 7 ; C. 17. 



The suborbital spine reaches to below the middle of the eye. Barbels six. 

 Bufi', with 10 to 12 dark vertical bands from back to belly. Head banded, and a 

 dark line from the eye to the snout. Numerous oblong blotches over the body. 

 Dorsal fin with three or four rows of spots. Caudal and anal also spotted. 



The Irrawaddy River and Tenasserim. 



B. nisTRiONicA, Blyth. 



B. iii. ; D. 10 ; P. 15 ; V. 8 ; A. 7 ; C. 19. 



Suborbital spine very strong, and reaching to the hinder edge of the orbit. 

 Barbels eight. Olive, with five dark vertical bands over the body and ten over 

 the head. AU the fins with two broad brown bars. 



Pegu. 



AcANxnopsis, V. Uasselt. 



Body very elongated. Snout long and compressed. Barbels eight, two being 

 mandibular. Orbital spine bifid. 



A. cnoiRRHTNcnus, Blocker. 

 Nga-tha-leh-to. (Applied to many allied species.) 



B. iii.; D. 11 ; P. 11 ; V. 7 ; A. 8 ; C. 11. 



Nostrils nearer the end of the snout than to tlie orbit. Brownish, with 12 bands 

 across the back, and as many blotches along tlie lateral line. Two rows of blotches 

 along the dorsal, and three across the anal fins. 



Burma. 



Lepidocephalichthts, Sleeker. 



Barbels 6 to 12, 4 being mandibular. A skinny flap on either side of the man- 

 dible, ending in a barbel. Pectoral fin sometimes armed witli a flat spine, adapted for 

 digging in the mud, for the purpose of concealment. 



L. Bekdmohei, Blyth. 

 Nga-tha-lah-t5. 



B. iii. ; D. 8 ; P. 10 ; V. 8 ; A. 7-8 ; C. 17. 



Barbels 1 rostral, 2 ma.xillary, and 4 to 6 short mandibular ones. Eich yellowish- 

 brown, with a dark-spotted Une along the body. The upper part of the body covered 



