360 LIEUT.-COL. W. H. SYKES ON THE 
situated a little behind a perpendicular from the first dorsal ray ; anal fin of 8 rays, in- 
cluding first double ray. Tail barely two-lobed, the line between the points being concave, 
of 19 rays, besides minute rays outside the longest rays ; lateral line above the centre, 
straight. This fish does not exceed the length of 5 or 6 inches, and is 13 to 2 inches 
in diameter. There are some few handsome spots of carmine about the head, and the 
eye has a narrow, bright orange iris. The general colour is dark olive, with a play of 
faint red and copperas-green sometimes on the scales: the fins have a faint orange 
tint at their extremities: fish firm, sweet, but bony. Found in the Beema river, at 
Downde. 
In 86 species of Cyprinus described by Dr. Hamilton there is not one corresponding 
to the Mullya, in the arrangement of the rays of the fins ; I am constrained, therefore, 
to consider it a new species. The Mullya approaches a good deal in figure to the Dace 
of Europe. 
Cuonprostoma WATTANAH. 
Tab. LXII. Fig. 4. 
A Chondrostoma of an elongated form, without tubercles or tendrils, with the dorsal fin high, and having 
11] rays; 9 or 10 rays in the ventral, and 8 in the anal fin; and of a sub-cylindrical body. Length 44 
inches ; height 3ths of an inch. 
A long sub-cylindrical fish : reddish-brown on the back, softening to silvery under the 
belly : head not obtuse ; eyes far back, circular ; irides silvery. Dorsal fin on the centre 
of the back, of 11 rays, first ray undivided, large and high for the size of the fish ; pec- 
toral fins of 14 or 15 rays, sharp ; ventral fins of 9 or 10 rays, situated a little behind a 
perpendicular dropped from the first dorsal ray ; anal fin of 8 rays. Tail forked, of 19 or 20 
rays, besides 6 short rays outside the longest rays. Lobes sharp, but small, there being 
some depth of tail-fin previous to the divarication. Lateral line straight, in the centre 
of the fish. Length of the fish 4} inches ; height {ths of an inch; does not grow 
larger. Found in the Beema river, near Pairgaon. 
This fish has quite the figure and aspect of the Dace of Europe. The Wattanah be- 
longs to Dr. Hamilton’s ninth, or ‘ Garra’ division of the genus Cyprinus, but there is 
not any species with which it can be identified. 
Genus Cuexa, Buchanan Hamilton. 
A sub-genus of Leuciscus, with the dorsal fin very far behind over the anal; straight back, and nose on 
the level of the line of the back. 
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Cueta BALooKEE. 
A Chela, of the size of a Minnow : back straight ; body elongated ; dorsal fin situated far back, and having 
8 rays, 14 rays in the anal, and 12 in the pectoral fins. 
Size and form of a Minnow : general colour silvery: pectoral fins of 12 rays ; dorsal 
fin of 8 rays, situated where a second dorsal fin is usually found ; anal fin of 14 rays: 
