300 TELEOSTEI. PHYSOSTOMI. 



Hob. From Orissa, throughout Bengal, Assam, Behar, and the 

 N.W. Provinces to the Punjab, but not recorded from Sind, the 

 Deccan, Western coast, Mysore, Madras, or Burma. This species 

 attains at least 18 inches in length. 



340. (2.) Barbus clavatus. 



Barbus clavatus, McClelland, Cal. Journ. N. H. v, 1845, p. 280, 

 pi. 21, fig. 2 ; Day, Fish. India, p. 5(30 (see synon.). 



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

 L. 1. 42. L. tr. G/4. 



Height of the body oue fourth of the length excluding the caudal 

 fin. Eyes large and in the middle of the length of the head. 

 Snout covered with small thorny tubercles. Barbels two well- 

 developed pairs. Fins last undivided dorsal ray osseous, strong, 

 serrated, and as long as the body is high. Scales 11| rows in an 

 oblique line from the base of the ventral to the dorsal. The figure 

 shows 4| rows between the lateral line and base of the ventral, 

 which would give 6| above the lateral line. Colour blue superiorly, 

 becoming white beneath : the fins pale bluish white. 



Hab. A single specimen (7 inches long) was obtained from a 

 river at the base of the Sikhim mountains in Bengal. 



341. (3.) Barbus sarana. 



Cyprinus sarana, Ham. Buck. Fish. Ganges, pp. 307, 388. 

 Barbus saranus, Day, Fish. India, p. 560, pi. cxxxvi, fig. '2 ^see 

 synon.). 



Punyella, Tarn. ; Giddi-kaoli, Durhie and Potah, Hind. ; Gid-pakk>>, 

 Can. ; Kannaku, Tel. ; Sarana, Ooriah and Beng. ; Jundoori, Punj. ; Knilali 

 and Pitule, Marathi ; Poppree and Kuh-nah-nee, Sind. ; Sen-nee, Assam ; 

 Nga-khon-mah-gyee and Nya-chong, Burmese. 



B.iii. D. 11 (3/8). P. 15. V. 9. A. 8 (3/5). C. 19. L.I. 32-34. 



L. tr. 51-6/6. 



Length of head 5 to 5|, height of body 3] to 3| in the total 

 length, Eyes diameter 4 to 4| in the length of head, 1 to lj 

 diameters from the end of snout, and 2 diameters apart. No pores 

 on the snout. Barbels the rostral pair about as long as the 

 orbit, the maxillary pair longer, sometimes equalling li diameters 

 of the orbit. Fins dorsal commences slightly nearer to the 

 snout than to the base of the caudal fin, and opposite the insertion 

 of the ventral ; its last undivided ray osseous, strong in the adult, 

 finely serrated posteriorly, and with its stiff portion two thirds as 

 long as the head, the fin is one half to two thirds as high as the 

 body, with its upper edge concave. Lateral line complete, from 

 3| to 4 rows of scales between it and the base of the ventral fin : 

 10 to 11 rows before the dorsal fin. Colour silvery, darkest 

 superiorly, opercles shot with gold ; the young have occasionally a 

 dull blotch on the lateral line before the base of the caudal fin. 



