200 TELEOSTEI. PHYSOSTOMI. 



Dl-hee, Sind. ; K'inoihi, Mavathi ; Dai, ditch; Kurri-minu, Canarese ; 

 Nya-nek-pya, Nya-noo-than, Nya-ony-tony, and Nja-yyeen-boo, Burmese. 



B. iii. D. 16-18 (3/13-15). P. 19. V. 9. A. 7 (2/5). C. 19. 

 L. 1. 40-44. L. tr. 7 1/8. 



Length of head 5 to 6 in the total length. Eyes diameter 4 to 

 5 in the length of the head, \\ to 2 diameters from end of snout, 

 and 2^ apart. Mouth rather narrow ; snout obtuse and depressed, 

 destitute of a lateral lobe but with pores. Lips thick, fringed 

 (more especially the lower one), and each having a distinct inner 

 fold. Barbels four, the rostral slightly the longer, and about 

 equal in length to the diameter of the orbit. Teeth pharyngeal, 

 crooked, 5, 4, 2/2, 4, 5. Fins dorsal commences in advance of the 



Fig. 93. Labeo calbasu. 



ventrals, and midway between the snout and the base of the caudal, 

 its upper margin somewhat concave. Ventral commences below 

 the fourth or fifth dorsal ray. Caudal deeply forked. Scales 

 51 to 6 rows between the lateral line and the base of the ventral 

 fin. In some districts, adults have very elongated fins, the first 

 few dorsal rays reach even to the base of the caudal, the ventral 

 extends to the end of the base of the anal, whilst the anal when 

 laid flat reaches the middle of the caudal. Colour blackish ; some- 

 times, especially in examples from clear streams, many of the scales 

 have a scarlet centre. Fins black, occasionally the end of the upper 

 lobe of the caudal white. 



Hal. Punjab, Sind, Cutch, Deccan, Southern India and Malabar, 

 from the Kistna through Orissa, Bengal, and Burma. It grows to 

 3 feet in length ; were it not for its numerous bones, it would be 

 excellent eating. 



294. (5.) Labeo stoliczkae. 



Labeo &\x>\\czkte,Stemt1achnei',Sit.ztmg8b. k.k.Akad. JfVrw,lxi, Abth. 1, 

 1870, p. 634 : Day, Fish. India, p. 637, pi. cxxxv, fig-. 1 (see synon.). 



i Burm. 



