302 TELEOSTEI. PHT8O8TOMI. 



length. Eyes diameter 3| in the length of head, nearly or 

 quite 1 diameter from the end of snout, and \\ to If apart. Body 

 compressed. Barbels the maxillary pair are one half longer than 

 the orbit, the rostral pair a little shorter. Fins dorsal commences 

 slightly in advance of the insertion of the ventral, and two thirds 

 as high as the body, having its upper edge concave, its last undi- 

 vided ray osseous (weak in the young, but strengthening with age), 

 as long as the head excluding the snout, and posteriorly serrated. 

 Lateral line complete, 3| or 4 rows of scales between it and the 

 base of the ventral fin ; 10 rows before the dorsal fin. Colour 

 silvery along the back and upper half of the body, becoming white 

 shot with gold beneath ; most of the scales with black bases. A 

 dark band behind the opercles and a black blotch on the lateral 

 line, commencing about the twenty-fourth scale. Opercles and 

 fins orange, caudal with a black superior and inferior edge. 



Hob. From fresh waters at Cocanada down the East coast of 

 India to Ceylon, and inland as far as the Nilgiris, also along the 

 "Western ghats and rivers at their bases. The largest example 

 obtained was 10| inches in length. 



344. (6.) Barbus pleurotaenia. 



Puntius (Barbodes) pleurotaenia, Bleeker, Cubit, et Cyjn-. Ceylon, in 

 Haarlem, Nat. Verh. Holland. Maatsch. xx, 18C4, p. 13, t. 3, fig. 2. 

 Barbus pleurotaenia, Day, Fish. India, p. 562 (see synon.). 



B.iii. D.I 1(3/8). P. 14. V. 9. A. 8 (3/5). C. 19. L.I. 27-29. 

 L. tr. 5/4|. 



Length of head about 5|, height of body 4 in the total length. 

 Eyes diameter two sevenths of length of head, 1 to 1| diameters 

 from end of snout, and slightly more apart. Barbels both pairs 

 somewhat longer than the orbit. Fins dorsal commences over 

 the ventral, and midway between the end of the snout and the base 

 of the caudal ; its last undivided ray is osseous, very strong, ser- 

 rated posteriorly, and as long as the head, the upper margin of the 

 fin concave ; caudal forked. Lateral line complete, 2^ rows of 

 scales between it and the root of the ventral ; 10 rows before the 

 dorsal fin. Colour a black band extends from the eye to the ter- 

 mination of the central caudal rays. 



Hub. Ceylon. 



345. (7.) Barbus goniosoma. 



Puntius (Barbodes) goniosoma, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. iii, p. 105, t. 31, 



fig. 1. 



Barbus gcniosoma, Day, Fish. India, p. 502, pi. cxxxvii, fig. 2 (see 

 synon.). 



B. iii. D. 11 (3/8). P. 15. V. 8. A. 7 (2/5). C. 19. L. 1. 24. 



L. tr. 4|/4|. 

 Length of head about 5, height of body 3| in the total length. 



