56 CyPRINID.E. 



Opercle high and narrow. Barbels none(?). Upper margin oi dorsal 

 tin concave. Coloration uniform. Pharj'ngcal teeth 5.4. 2 — 2 .4.5. 

 Bowany Kiver. 



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



17. Labeo morala. 



Cyprinus morala, Hmn. Buck. Fish. Gang. p. 331, pi. 18. fig. 91 ; 

 'Gray, Ind. Zuol; iWClell. Lid. Ct/pr. p. 326. 



pausius, Ham. Bitch. I. c. p. .332. 



? Cyprinus musilia, Ilain. 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 erythroptenis. 



Diplocheiliis erythropterus, V. Hass. Ah/eiit. Konst- en Lettcrhode, 



1823, ii. p. 133. 

 Labeo erythropterus, Cuv. 3f Val. xvi. p. 354; Bleck. Nat. Tydschr. 



Ned. hid. xiii. p. 360. 

 Lobocheilus lucas, Blcek. I. c. p. 36j! (young). 

 Labeo (Diplocheiltis) erytlu'opterus, Bleek. Prodi: Cypr. p. 135 ; or 



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

 ( ) lucas, Bleck. 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 veiy distinct lateral lobe. Four small barbels, the iipi)er 

 of which ai'e sometimes lost with age. A deep groove on each side 

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

 adult examples) behind the middle of the length of the head. 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 considcrabl)' 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. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 

 6. Young. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection {Laheo lucas). 



As in other species of Laheo, the operculum is comparatively 

 shorter in old examples than in joung ones. 



