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overhanging the mouth, but not swollen, having a very indistinct 

 lateral loba ; some spacimsns have a few small pores oa the snout.- 

 Lips continuous ; the groove across the lower jaw interrupted ; 

 mouth transverse, inferior ; a cartilaginous or horny covering to 

 inside of the lower jaw. The suborbital ring of bones compara- 

 tively wide, being two thirds the width of the orbit. Barbds a 

 shorb maxillary pair. TVeZ/i pharyngeal, plough-shaped, 5, 4, 2/2, 

 4, 5. fins the height of the dorsal equals or exceeds the length 

 of the head, its upper edge is very concave, it arises midway 

 between the end of the snout and the posterior extremity of the 

 base of the anal fin. The pectoral does not reach the ventral. 

 Scales 6L rows between lateral line and base of ventral fin. The 

 scales covering the thorax are very small. Colour silvery, darkest 

 in the upper half of the body ; sometimes the scales are marked 

 with red. 



Hob. Himalayas, from the Punjab, Murree, and Kangra, also 

 Kashmir. 



308. (19.) Labeo boggut. 



Chondrostoma boggut, Sykes, Tr. Z. 8. ii, p. 359. 



Labeo boggut, Day, Fish. India, p. 542, pi. cxxviii, fig. 4 (see synon.). 



Sande and Kolees, Mahr. ; Lot, Cutch. 



B. iii. D. 11-12 (3/8-9). P. 17. V. 9. A. 7 (2/5). C. 19. 

 L. 1. 60-65. L. tr. 11-12/14. 



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

 4^ to 5 in length of head, 1^ to If diameters from end of snout, 

 and 2 apart. Dorsal profile rather more convex than that of the 

 abdomen. Snout thick, somewhat projecting beyond the jaws, but 

 without any lateral lobe. A few pores ou the snout. Lower labial 

 fold complete ; lower lip fimbriated ; a horny covering to the inside 

 of the lower lip. Barbels a short maxillary pair, fins the 

 dorsal commences nearer to the .snout than to the root of the caudal, 

 it is as high as the body, its upper edge concave. The pectoral is 

 nearly as long as the head and does not reach the ventral ; the latter 

 is inserted under the middle dorsal rays. The ventral does not 

 extend to the anal, nor the latter to the caudal, which is deeply 

 forked. Scales 8 or 9 rows between lateral line and base of 

 ventral fin. Colour silvery, darkest superiorly. Fins orange. 

 In some specimens a few light lines run along the sides, or a bluish 

 band along the body. A dark spot usually present near the base 

 of the caudal, and sometimes a smaller one on the lateral line above 

 the last third of the pectoral fin. 



Hob. Bengal, the Punjab, Central Provinces, Bombay, the Deccan, 

 common at Jubbulpore and in Cutch, also found at Madras. It 

 attains at least 7 inches in length. 



fig. 4 (see synon.). 



(20.) Labeo boga. 



k. Fish. Ganges, pp. 

 India, p. 543, pi. cxxviii, fig. 3, and pi. cxxxi, 



Cypriuus boga, Ham. Buck. Fish. Ganges, pp. 28(3, 380, pi. 28, fig. 80. 

 Labjo boga, Day, Fish. 



