56 CYPRINIDiE. 



Opcrcle higli nud narrow. Bai'bels none (?). Upper miirgin of dorsal 

 tin concave. Coloration unitbrm. Pharyngeal teeth 5.4. 2 — 2 .4.5. 



Bowauy Elver. 



These notes were taken from a stuffed example, 21 1 inches long. 



17. Labeo morala. 



Cyprinus morala, Ham. Buck. Fkh. Gang. p. 331, pi. 18. fig. 91 ; 

 Gray., Ind. Zool.; M^Clell. Ind. Cypr. p. 326. 



pausius. Ham. Buch. I. c. p. 332. 



? Cyprinus musiha, Ham. Buch. I. c. pp. 333, 392. 



D. 13-14. A. 8. 



Scales of moderate size. Snout projecting, not very thick, with 

 very small pores, without lateral lobe. Four barbels, about as long 

 as the eye. A blackish spot at the end of the tail. (H. B.) 



Bengal. 



18. Labeo erythropterus. 



Diplocheilus erythropterus, V. Hass. Ah/em. Konst- en Letterbode, 



1823, ii. p. 133. 

 Labeo erythropterus, Cuv. Sf Val. xvi. p. 354 ; Bleek. Nat. Tydschr. 



Ned. Ind. xiii. p. 360. 

 Lobocheilus lucas, Bleek. I. c. p. 362 (young). 

 Labeo (Diplocheilus) erji:hroptei"us, Bleek. Prodr. Cypr. p. 135 j or 



Atl. Ichthyol. Cypr. p. 52, tab. 5. 

 ( ) lucas, Bleek. I. c. p. 53, tab. 8. fig. 4. 



D. 14. A. 7. L. lat. 42. L. transv. 8/7. 



Mouth broad. Lips thick, continuous, not fringed, with an inner 

 fold in their entire circumference, equally developed on the lower 

 and upper lips. Snout obtuse, much projecting beyond the lower 

 jaw, with a very distinct lateral lobe. Four small barbels, the upper 

 of which are sometimes lost with age. A deep groove on each side 

 of the snout. Eye small, not so large as a scale, situated in or (in 

 adult examples) behind the middle of the length of the liead. There 

 are five longitudinal series of scales between the lateral line and 

 the ventral fin. Upper margin of the dorsal fin concave, the ante- 

 rior rays being somewhat produced ; caudal fin deeply forked, the 

 length of the middle rays being two-sevenths of that of the outer 

 longest, which are considerably longer than the head. The height 

 of the body is contained thrice and one-sixth in the total length 

 (without caudal), the length of the head four times and one-third. 

 Coloration uniform. 



Java. 



a. Adult. Prom Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 



b. Young. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection (Labeo lucas). 



As in other species of Labeo, the operculum is comparatively 

 shorter in old examples than in young ones. 



