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322. (3.) Cirrhina latia. 



Cyprinus latins, Ham. Buck. Fish. Ganges, pp. 345, 393. 



Cirrhina latia, Day, Fish. India, p. 548, pi. cxxx, fig. 4 (see synon.). 



Kctla-batta, Bengali and Ooriah ; Behrah and Tellarrec, Punj. ; Curru, 



Sind. 



B. iii. D. 10-11 (3/7-8). P. 15. Y. 9. A. 7 (2/5). C. 19. 

 L. 1. 38-40. L. tr. 6/6. Vert. 15/17. 



Length of head 6 to 6, height of body 5i to 7 iu the total 

 length. Eyes rather behind the middle of the head in the adult; 

 diameter 3^ to 5 in the length of the head, about 2 diameters from 

 end of snout, and also apart. Upper surface of the head rather 

 broad ; snout overhanging the jaws and having a small lateral lobe. 

 Upper lip deeply indented on the edge, and each indentation (in 

 some specimens) having a tricuspid termination ; this is most seen 

 in examples from Calcutta and Orissa. least so in those from Sind, 

 the Punjab, and Central Provinces ; the surface rough as in Dis- 

 coynaihus. Lower lip with a strong sharp horny covering, the lip 

 at the angle having a sort of pendulous lobe ; the under surface of 

 the jaw with a round, callous, and rather elevated spot, which in 

 the adult has a free anterior edge. Barbels a rostral pair and 

 sometimes a short maxillary pair. Teeth pharyngeal, crooked, 5, 

 4, 2 2, 4, 5. Fins dorsal commences about midway between the 

 end of the snout and base of the caudal h'n in the young, but rather 

 nearer the snout in the adult. Pectoral as long as the head, its 

 outer three or four rays rather thickened. Caudal deeply forked, 

 upper lobe sometimes the longer. Scales 3 to 4^ rows between 

 lateral line and base of ventral fin. Colour brownish olive, 

 irregularly spotted with black marks. Dorsal and caudal fins 

 yellowish, stained with grey, the others orange. 



This fish has much the character of a loach or of a Disco ynathiu, 

 adhering to stones in the beds of rivers. 



Jfab. Sind, Orissa, Bengal, N.W. Provinces, Punjab, Deccan, 

 and along the Himalayas ; attaining 8 inches in length. 



323. (4.) Cirrhina reba. (Fig. 96.) 



Cyprinus reba, Ham. Buch. Fish. Ganges, pp. 280, 380. 



Cirrhina reba, Day, Fish. India, p. 549, pi. cxxx, fig. 3 (see synon.). 

 Eekmose and CJiittahri, Tel. ; Pil aringam, Tamil ; Chetchua-porah, 

 Ooriah; Batta, Bengali ; Rewah, Hind. ; Soonnee, Punj . and Sind ; Lasseem, 

 Assam. 



B. iii. D. 10-11 (2-3/8-9). P. 16. V. 9. A. 8 (3/5). C. 19. 



L. 1. 35-38. L. tr. 7/9. 



Length of head 6 to 6|, height of body 4 to 4 in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter 4 in the length of head, 1 to 1 ^ diameters 

 from the end of snout, and nearly 2 apart. Snout slightly pro- 

 jecting, more distinctly in the immature. Upper lip fringed in the 

 young, sometimes entire in the adult. A thin cartilaginous layer 



