60 CTPRINID^E. 



25. Labeo chalybeatus. 



Rohita clialybeata, Cuv. ^- Val. xvi. p. 271. 



D. 19. A. 7. L. lat. 65. 

 Lips fringed ; barbels four. The length of the head is one-fifth of 

 the total (with the caudal), the diameter of the eye one-third of 

 the length of the head. Caudal lobes elongate. Coloration uniform. 

 {Val.) 



Eangoon. (Specimen 5 inches long.) 



Rohita llneata, Cuv. & Yal. xvi. p. 260, from the Irawaddy, 

 cannot be distinguished from this species according to the descrip- 

 tions given by Valenciennes. He evidently never compared the two 

 fishes which, however, appear to be identical, 



26. Labeo microlepidotus. 



Chm. ^ Val xvi. p. 352. 



D. 17. A. 7. L. lat. 63. 

 Lips fringed ; two extremely small barbels. The height of the 

 body is one-fourth of the total length (with the caudal), the length 

 of the head one-fifth ; the diameter of the eye oue-third of the 

 length of the head. Coloration uniform. ( Val.) 

 llangoon. 



27. Labeo cursa. 



Cyprimis cursa, Ham. Ihich. Fish. Gang. p. 290. 



cursis, Ha7n. Buch. Fish. Gang. p. 292. 



? Cyprinus curchius, Ham. Buch. Fish. Gang. p. 289. 



Labeo curchius, cursis et ciu-sa, il/' Clell. hid. Cypr. pp. 268, 327, 329, 



tab. 40. tig. 3, t. 38. iigs. 2 & 3. 

 Rohita tincoides, Cuv. i^ Val. x\-i. p. 269. 

 chalybeata, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxv. Beng. ^ Hindost. p. 133 



(not a Sf- v.). 

 microlepidota, Cfilnth. Proc. Zool. 8oc. 1861, p. 225. 



D. 16-17. A. 7. L. lat. 80. L. transv. 15/16. 

 Mouth rather narrow. Lips moderately thick, with a very 

 distinct inner fold above and below ; the lower finely fringed. 

 Snout rather obtuse, slightly swoUen, with numerous small hollow 

 tubercles in front, depressed, without lateral lobe. Four minute 

 barbels, the upper of which are sometimes absent. Eye of moderate 

 size, or rather small, in adult examples ; situated somewhat before 

 the middle of the length of the head. There are eleven or twelve 

 longitudinal series of scales between the lateral line and the ventral 

 fin. Upper margin of the dorsal fin slightly concave. Body mode- 

 rately compressed, its depth being contained thrice and three-fifths 

 in the total length (without caudal). Coloration uniform. 



Bengal; Nepal. 

 a. Adult: stuffed. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Type of B. microlepidota. 

 h. Half- grown, fine specimen. Ganges. From the Collection of the 



Zoological Society. 



