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lobe. Lips thick, continuous, and having an inner fold above and 

 below, both fringed. Barbels rostral and maxillary pairs short. 

 Teeth phaiyngeal, 5, 3, 2/2, 3, 5. Fins dorsal commences some- 

 what nearer to the snout than to the base of the caudal, it is two 

 thirds as high as the body, its upper edge concave. Pectoral nearly 

 as long as the head, it' does not reach the ventral. The ventral 

 nearly extends to the anal, and the latter to the caudal. Caudal 

 deeply forked. Scales 6 or 7 rows between the lateral line 

 and the base of the ventral fin. Colour silvery along the back, 

 becoming lighter on the sides and beneath. Pins, more especially 

 the ventral, anal, and lower caudal lobe, stained with black. 

 Sometimes a diffused dark blotch, almost invariably present in 

 the young, at the base of the caudal. 



Hab. Sind, Punjab, the Deccan, and probably N.E. Bengal; 

 also Southern India at least to Orissa, not recorded from Malabar 

 or Canara. Attains a foot and a half in length, and is good eating, 

 but bony. 



292. (3.) Labeo nigrescens. 

 Labeo nigrescens, Day, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 371 ; Fish. India, p. 536, 



pi. cxxvii, fig. 2 (see synon.). 

 Mul-vel and Kurri-minu, Canarese. 



B. iii. D. 17-18 (2-3/14-15). P. 19. A. 7 (2/5). C. 19-21. 

 L. 1. 36. L. tr. 6/7. 



Length of head 5 in the total length. Eyes diameter 4 to 5 

 in the length of head, 2 diameters from the end of snout and 

 also apart. Snout rather swollen and rounded, and somewhat 

 projecting over the lower jaw ; a small lateral lobe ; glands over 

 the whole of the snout. A very distinct labial fold both above 

 and below ; a deep transverse groove across the chin ; lower lip 

 deeply fringed. Barbels maxillary as long as the orbit, rostral 

 rather shorter. Fins dorsal commences midway between front 

 end of snout and posterior end of base of anal fin. The pectoral 

 reaches to above the ventral ; the latter, which is inserted beneath 

 the fourth dorsal ray, reaches to the anal. Anal rather elongated 

 anteriorly, being three fifths higher than its base is long ; if 

 laid backwards it reaches the base of the caudal, which latter fin is 

 deeply forked. Scales 4}j rows between the lateral line and base 

 of the ventral fin. Colour deep brown, each scale with a black 

 spot at its base. Fins black. 



Hub. Mangalore and South Canara ; said to attain 18 inches in 

 length. 



293. (4.) Labeo calbasu. (Fig. 93.) 



Cyprians calbasu, Ham. Buck. Fish. Gang. pp. 297, 387, pi. ii, 



"fig. S3. 

 Labeo calbasu, Day, Fish. India, p. 636, pi. cxxvi, fig. 4 (see synon.). 



urmenUfToluga ; Kiilbasu and Kund/ia, Jieiig., and Cuggera 

 ; Multlee, Assam; Kula-beinse, Ouriali and lliiid. ; Di, 1'unj. ; 



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