250 Records of the Indian Museum. (Vox, Sorte. 
The spawning season is said to extend from August to Octo- 
ber. Dr. Willey observes : 
“On August 31st a half-spent spawning (barbus dorsalis) accompanied by a 
batch of adhesive eggs was brought from the Colombo lake. The eggs measured 
0°75 mm. in diameter with a pale grayish transparent yolk nearly uniformly granu- 
lous. The eggs had been caught in the act of being laid and were apparently 
unfertilized.” } 
Uses.—This species attains to at least eight inches in length 
and is fairly good as food. 
Barbus sophore (H. B.)? 
(B. stigma of the Fauna of Brit. India.) 
Tamil—Kulla kendat. 
In June, 1910 I obtained a dozen specimens of this species 
from a pond behind the Madras Museum, some of which pos- 
sess a pair of small maxillary barbels The chief characters of 
examples of the two kinds obtained simultaneously from the above 
pond are detailed below to obviate all possible doubt as to their 
identification— 
I. SPECIMENS WITH A PAIR OF MAXILLARY BARBELS. 
1. A specimen 3 in. in length. 
DD. 3/85 eA 3/50 We 2/7autue zo: 
A dark lateral blotch on scales 22 and 23 of the lateral line. 
Three rows of scales between the LL. and the ventral fin. 
Length of head 5 in total length. 
Nine scales before the dorsal fin. 
A scarlet lateral band. 
2. A specimen 4 in. in length, 
D2 3/8075; 3) 5.227 ee ee 
A dark lateral blotch on scales 22, 23 and 24 of the LL. 
Three rows of scales between the 11. and the ventral fin. 
A scarlet lateral band present. 
Ten scales before the origin of the dorsal fin. 
3. Aspecimen 47, in. in length. 
D: 3/8. A. 3/6) M. 2/7. “Tne2e. 
A searlet lateral band. 
A dark lateral blotch on scales 22, 23 and 24 of the LL. 
Three rows of scales between the LL. and the ventral fin. 
Length of head 4!, height of body 3! in total length. 
The diameter of the eye 3% in the length of the head. 
Ten scales before the dorsal fin. 
| Spolta Zeylanica, VII, p. 103. 
2 Chaudhuri, Mem. /nd. Mus., V, p. 436 (1916). 
