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Mostly some dark spots behind the opercle. When the fish is 

 fresh there are sometimes horizontal bands along the rows of scales 

 in the upper half of the body. Fins whitish or yellowish white, 

 and externally stained with grey. 



Hob. Sind and the Punjab, throughout India, Assam, and Burma, 

 in which latter country the caudal tin has sometimes a black upper 

 and lower edge and a dark mark at the base of each scale. This 

 fish attains at least a foot in length. 



342. (4.) Barbus chrysopoma. 



Barbus chrysoporaa, Cuv. $ Veil. H. N. Poiss. xvi, p. 165, pi. 466 ; 

 Day, Fish. India, p. 561 (see synon.). 



Munduttee, Mai. ; Pungela, Tamil. 



B.iii. 1). 12(4/8). P. 17. V.9. A. 8 (3/5). C.19. L.I. 28-30. 

 L. tr. 6/6. 



Length of head 4^ to 5, height of body 3| in the total length. 

 Eyes diameter 3| to 3| in the length of the head (in a specimen 2-6 

 inches in length the eve is at least 2^ in the length of the head), 1 

 diameter from the end of snout, and 1 to lj apart. Barbels the 

 rostral very thin, not so long as the eye ; the maxillary as long as the 

 orbit. Fins dorsal commences midway between the front edge of 

 the eye and the base of the caudal fin and opposite the insertion of 

 the ventral ; its last undivided ray osseous, of moderate strength, 

 finely serrated posteriorly, and with its stiff portion as long as the 

 head excluding the snout; the height of the fin is two thirds to 

 three fourths that of the body below it, the upper edge concave. 

 Lateral line complete, and a little more concave than in the next 

 species, whilst it is sometimes sinuous in the last part of its 

 course ; 4 rows of scales between it and the base of the ventral 

 fin ; 12 rows before the base of the dorsal fin. Colour dark 

 silvery, lightest beneath, opercles shot with purple and gold. A 

 dark vertical band behind the opercles and a dull spot on the 

 lateral line just anterior to the base of the caudal fin. Upper and 

 lower margins of the caudal greyish ; the other fins golden. 



The eyes in this species are larger than in B. sarana, and not so 

 far apart. 



Hob. Eresh waters along the coasts of India from Cutch to 

 Bengal, also the Deccan, Mysore, and Madras. I have likewise 

 received this species from Darjeeling. 



343. (5.) Barbus pinnauratus. 



Puntius pinnauratus, Day, Fish. Malabar, p. 209, pi. xv, tig. 2. 

 Barbus pinnauratus, Day, Fish. India, p. 561, pi. cxxxix, tig. 3 (fee 

 synon.). 



B.iii. D. 11 (3/8). P. 17. V.8. A. 7 (2/5). C.19. L.I. 29-30. 



L.tr. 5|-6/6. 

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



