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Eyes diameter two sevenths of length of head, 1 diameter from 

 end of snout, and 1| apart. Body elevated to the base of dorsal 

 fin, whilst it is strongly compressed. Eostral barbels extend to 

 below the middle of the eye ; maxillai-y to opposite the posterior 

 margin of the orbit. Fins origin of dorsal slightly posterior to 

 the insertion of the ventrals ; dorsal spine osseous, strong, as long 

 as the head without the snout, and finely serrated posteriorly in 

 its whole extent ; the fin is one half as high as the body. Caudal 

 forked, the lower lobe the longer. Scales 2| rows between lateral 

 line and base of ventral fin ; 9 rows before dorsal. Colour silvery, 

 fins orange. 



Hob. Mergui to Sumatra, growing to 6 inches in length. 



346. (8.) Barbus roseipinnis. 



Barbus roseipinnis, Cuv. $ Vol. If. N. Poiss. xvi, p. 169 ; Day, Fish. 

 India, p. 562 (see synon.). 



B. iii. D. 11 (3/8). A. 7(2/5). C. 20. L. 1. 22. 



Dorsal profile elevated. Eyes large. Barbels four, thin and 

 long. Fins dorsal with its last undivided ray osseous, of moderate 

 strength and serrated. Colour silvery ; ventral, anal, and caudal 

 fins reddish, the lower border of the last tinged with black. 



Hob. Pondicherry, whence M. Belanger brought specimens 4| 

 inches in length. 



347. (9.) Barbus dubius. 



Puntius (Barbodes) dubius, Day, P. Z. S. 1807, p. 291. 

 Barbus dubius, Day, Fish. India, p. 662, pi. cxxxvii, fig. 1 (see 

 synon.). 



Collee-anngean candee, Tarn. 



B. iii. D. 13 (4/9). P. 17. V. 9. A. 7 (2/5). L. 1. 42-45. 



L. tr. 9/8. 



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

 diameter 4| in length of head, lj diameters apart, and also from end 

 of snout. Barbels rather short, the rostral pair being about equal 

 to half the diameter of the orbit, whilst the maxillary are a little 

 longer. Snout somewhat elevated. Fitis doi'sal spine osseous, 

 smooth, and strong ; it is nearly as long as the head, the fin com- 

 mences somewhat nearer to the end of the snout than to the base 

 of the caudal, and a little in advance of the insertion of the ventral. 

 Lateral line complete, 4| to 5 rows of scales between it and the 

 base of the ventral fin ; 14 rows before the dorsal fin. Colour 

 uniform silvery, with the bases of the scales darkest. 



Hal). Bhavani river at the foot of the Nilgiris. 



