244 TELEOSTEI. PIIYSOSTOMI. 





fifth of length of head, 3 diameters from end of snout, 2 diameters 

 apart. Lips fringed. Rostral barbels short, the pair at the angles 

 of the mouth thicker and slightly longer. Teeth pharyngeal, 5, in 

 one row. Fins dorsal arising rather nearer end of snout than 

 base of caudal. Pectoral nearly reaching the ventral, its outer 8 

 rays unbranched. Two outer ventral rays simple. Caudal lobed 

 in its posterior third, lobes equal. Scales cycloid. Lateral line 

 complete. Colour dull olive, becoming yellowish beneath. Large 

 brown blotches on the body. Dorsal fin with three rows of dull 

 spots; pectoral and ventral with three or four, anal with two, 

 caudal with three irregular bands, and black tips. 



Hob. Wynaad, the Bhavani river, also the Himalayas. 



277. (3.) Homaloptera bilineata. 



Homaloptera bilineata, Elyih, J. A. S. B. xxix, 1860, p. 172 ; Day, 

 ^> ^ Fish. India, p. 526, pi. cxxi, fig. 8 (see synon.). 



B. iii. D. 10 (2/8). P. 17. V. 9. A. 7 (2/5). C. 19. L. 1. 64. 

 L. tr. 12/17. 



Length of head one fifth of the total length. Eyes small, 

 behind the middle of the length of the head. Snout pointed. 

 Barbels short, six in number. Fins dorsal arises slightly in 

 advance of the ventrals. Pectoral has its five outer rays un- 

 branched ; it reaches two thirds of the distance to the ventral, 

 and the latter above halfway to the anal. Caudal deeply emar- 

 ginate, its lobes pointed. Lateral line complete. Air-bladder 

 absent. Colour brownish, with a wide dark chestnut band 

 passing from the snout through the orbit to the base of the dorsal 

 fin, which last has a black centre. Caudal deep brown with white 

 margins. A black bar across the base of the ventrals. 



Hob. Northern Bengal and the Tenasserim provinces. 



2. Genus PSILORHYNCHUS, McClelland. 



Back somewhat elevated, head moderately depressed ; snout 

 more or less spatulate. Mouth small, transverse, inferior. Lips 

 entire, not continuous, reflected from off both jaws, and studded 

 with glands. Barbels absent. Dorsal fin with few rays, commencing 

 opposite the ventrals. Pectorals horizontal, with their outer rays 

 unbranched. Anal short. Scales of moderate size, none on the 

 chest. Lateral line complete, continued direct to the centre of the 

 base of the caudal fin. Air-bladder present. 



278. (1.) Psilorhynclms balitora. (Fig. 86.) 



Cyprinus balitora, Ham. Such. Fish. Ganges, pp. 348, 394. 

 Psilorhyncbus balitora, -Day, Fish. India, p. 527, pi. cxxi, fig. 7, and 

 pi. cxxii, fig. 3 (see synon.). 



B. iii: D. 9-10 (2/7-8). P. 17. V. 9. A. 7 (2/5). C. 18. 

 L. 1. 35. L. tr. 4/4|. 



