CYPIHNID.E. CYPRININ.S;. o29 



B. iii. D. 10 (2/8). P. 12. V. 9. A. 7. 



" Head oval, small, blunt and dotted. Mouth small. The jaws 

 protrude in opening, the upper is the longest. . . . The eyes are 

 far forwards on the sides of the head and large." Fins the 

 dorsal is near the middle, its osseous ray is strong and serrated. 

 Scales large and firmly adherent. Lateral line incomplete. 

 Colour the back dotted. 



Ilab. Gangetic provinces and Assam, scarcely exceeding an inch 

 and a half in length. This species is evidently allied to Barbus 

 ambassis, p. 324. 



398. (60.) Barbus stigma. 



Leuciscus stigma, Cuv. $ Vul. H. N. Pom. xvii, p. 93, pi. 489. 

 Barbus stigma, Day, Fish. India, p. 579, pi. cxli, fig. 5 (see synon.). 

 Chadu-periyi, Tel. ; Patia-feruiidi, Ooriah ; Katcha-karaiva and Pottiah, 

 Hind. ; Katch-karaiva, Can. ; Kudnle, Marathi; Nya-khoon-ma, Burm. 



B. iii. D. 11-12 (3/8-9). P. 17. V. 9. A. 8 (3/5). C. 19. 

 L. 1. 23-26. L. tr. 4|-5/5. Vert. 15/14. 



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

 Eyes diameter 3| to 4 in length of head, | to 1 diameter from 

 end of snout, 1| to 2 diameters apart. Teeth pharyngeal, crooked, 

 5, 3, 2/2, 3, 5. Fins dorsal half to two thirds as high as the 

 body ; its last undivided ray osseous, rather weak or of moderate 

 strength, entire, as long as the head without the snout, or even 

 less ; the fin commences rather in advance of the insertion of the 

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

 the caudal. Lateral line complete, 3 to 3| rows of scales between 

 it and the base of the ventral fin, 8 to 9 rows before the dorsal fin. 

 Occasionally in the N.W. Provinces and Bengal specimens occur 

 with 1. 1. 27. Colour silvery, with a scarlet lateral band at some 

 seasons, and a dark mark across the base of the middle dorsal rays, 

 this last being occasionally absent. A round black blotch, more or 

 less distinct, at the root of the caudal fin. 



Hab. Sind, throughout ludia and Burma as high as Mandalay. 

 As food this fish is bitter. In January 1868 I found 1850 

 developed ova in one female fish at Madras. It attains at least 

 5 inches in length. 



399. (61.) Barbus chrysopterus. 



Systomus chrysopterus, Me C'lttt. As. Res. xix, pt. 2 ; Ind. Cyp. 



p. 285. 

 Barbus chrysopterus, Day, Fish. India, p. 579, pi. cxliii, fig. 6 



(see synon.). 



Pottiah, Punj. ; Durru, Sind. 



B.iii. D. 11 (3/8). P. 17. V.9. A. 7 (2/5). 0.19. L.I. 23-25. 

 L. tr. 5/5. 



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



