CYPBINID.E. CTPEININ^E. 275 



Uab. Sittoung, Billing, and Rangoon in Burma. The largest 

 specimen, out of seven, measured six inches in length. 



317. (3.) Osteochilus cephalus. 



Labeo cephalus, Cuv. $ Val. H. N. Pom. xvi, p. 347, pi. 487. 

 Osteochilus cephalus, Day, Fish. India, p. 546. 



B. iii. D. 16 (3/13). P. 20. V. 9. A. 9 (3/6). C. 19. 

 L. 1. 40. L. tr. 7/7. 



Length of head 4|, height of body 4 in the total length. Eyes 

 one fifth of length of head, two diameters from end of snout. The 

 snout projects beyond the jaws, it is rather swollen and has many 

 pores opening on its surface ; the mandible has a transverse free 

 edge, with thick lip, both the upper and lower lips fringed. 

 Barbels yone short maxillary pair. Fins the dorsal commences 

 midway between the snout and base of caudal, and in advance of 

 the ventrals, its upper border is concave. The anal laid flat 

 reaches the caudal. Scales 4| rows between the lateral line and 

 base of ventral fin. Colour greenish, with the base of each scale 

 darkest. 



Ilal>. Pegu, attaining one foot in length. 



11. Genus DANGILA, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 Syn. Cyrene, sp.. Heckel. 



Abdomen rounded. Snout moderately depressed and obtusely 

 rounded. Mouth transverse, more or less inferior. Lower jaw 

 sharp, covered with a thin lip, and having a tubercle above the 

 symphysis ; upper lip fringed. Barbels small, one maxillary and 

 one mandibular pair. Pharyngeal teeth, 5, 4 or 3, 3 or 2/2 or 3, 

 3 or 4, 5. Dorsal fin rather long, without any osseous ray, and 

 commencing in advance of the ventrals. Anal short, without a 

 tile-like row of scales. Scales of large, small, or moderate size. 

 Lateral line continuous, passing to the centre of the base of the 

 caudal fin. Grill-rakers short. 



This genus, which differs from CirrJiina in possessing a few 

 more rays in the dorsal fin, does not appear to extend into ludia 

 proper. 



Geographical Distribution. Burma to the Malay Archipelago. 



Synopsis of Indian Species. 



D. 26-38, L. 1. 39-40, L. tr. 7/9 1. D. litrmanica, p. 275. 



1). -2(J, L. 1. 31, L. tr. G/ ? 2. D. berdmorei, p. 276. 



318. (1.) Dangila burmanica. (Fig. 95.) 



Dangila bumianica, Day, Fish. India, p. 546, pi. cxxxi, fig. 2 (see 



synon.). 



B. iii. D. 26-28 (2-3/24-25). P. 16. V. 9. A. 7 (2/5). 

 C. 19. L. 1. 39-40. L. tr. 7/9. 



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