Barbus. INDIAN CYPRINID. 350)" 
IIJ.—B. macrocerHanus, J. M. 
£2155; 1. 2h 
Burapetea of the Assamese. 
Length of the head compared to that of the body as two to five, twenty- 
seven scales along the lateral line, and six in an oblique row from the base 
of the ventrals to the back ; fins short, and formed of strong rays as follows, 
DU PG VALO SALT: C10: 
The postorbitar plates are broadly expanded ; the eyes are placed in the 
anterior third of the head, equidistant between the preoperculum and the 
intermaxillary bones. ‘The mouth is large and protractile, the lips smooth 
and round, the jaws and intermaxillaries strong and covered, as well as the 
interior of the mouth, with an uninterrupted extension of the outer skin. 
The stomach and intestine are a simple continuation of a single canal 
consisting only of two convolutions; the liver is large, and envelopes the 
stomach and intestines with its broad and elongated lobes. 
Mr. Griffith caught many with live bait, some as weighty as 20 and even 
30 pounds : smaller individuals are however taken with flies, and he remarked 
of this and another fish very nearly allied to it, called by the natives 
Mahaseer, that they are so extremely voracious and carnivorous in their 
habits as to swallow any of the smaller fishes that approach them. This is 
exactly what might be expected in one of the most typical species of a sub- 
typical group, for although the Barbels belong to the Ponomine, or 
herbivorous sub-family, yet as a natural group, it should according to the law 
of symbolical representation have its carnivorous forms, and from the preva- 
lence of these among the Barbels I have made this genus the sub-typical, or 
destructive group of the Peonomine. 
The only individual I have had an opportunity of examining was caught 
in deep clear water at the commencement of the rapids, and was three and a 
