Barbus. INDIAN CYPRINID&. oon 
in the plains, keeping mostly in the middle of the stream, where it takes a 
red hackle very freely, as well as worms and other bait. It is very powerful, 
often attaining two feet and upwards in length, and usually weighing from 
eight to twelve pounds. 
There is still another large species Cyp. pitutora, Buch. closely allied to the 
preceding Barbels, which according to Buchanan sometimes attains nine feet 
in length ;* it has the following rays in its fins, 
IDL e Jews Wate ALES (Caley 
The head is said to be blunt, oval, and small, with a protractile mouth, 
and the scales to terminate with a notch behind. The first of these charac- 
ters would seem partly to refer it to B. hexagonolepus, while the notch at the 
apex of the scales is only apparent in B. macrocephalus. There is no drawing 
in Buchanan’s collection of the species alluded to, and as his description is 
not sufficiently clear, we must for the present consider Cyp. pitutora as a 
doubtful species. 
* 
V.—B. MEGALEPIS, J. M. 
Cyp. mosal, Buch. 
Hardw. Ilust. Tab. 93, f. 1. 
The only specimen of this species I have seen is contained in a small 
collection of fishes presented to the Society by Mr. Hodgson. Its principal 
difference from the last described consists in its having a longer head, which is 
* The proportional depth of such an individual could not be less than two feet. Mr. Yarrell 
alludes to a Carp, the largest he could find any record of, and which weighed twenty-two pounds ; 
but it appears from a notice in the Phil. Mag. Aug. 1837, that a Carp twenty-three pounds weight 
had been found in England in 1771. There can be no doubt however that the Barbel alluded to by 
Buchanan must have been twice that weight at least, and that twenty-three pounds is an ordinary 
weight of many of the Indian species of this and the last described genus. 
