332 TELEOSTEI. PHY8OSTOMI. 



Sitang river in Burma are in the Calcutta Museum ; what they 

 would be, when adults, it is difficult to determine, but as the 

 lateral line is incomplete, they probably never would grow to large 

 fish. The species is very similar to Barbus thermalis, C. V., but 

 its head is a little longer, and the latter species is from Ceylon. 



404. (66.) Barbus waageni. 



Barbus (Puntius) waageni, Day, J. A. S. B. xli, 1872, pt. 2, p. 325. 

 Barbus waageni, Day, Fish. India, p. 581, pi. cxliv, fig. 4. 



B. iii. D. 10-11 (2-3/8). P. 15. V. 9. A. 7 (2/5). 

 C. 20. L. 1. 23. L. tr. 4/7. 



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

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

 from end of snout, and \\ apart. Fins dorsal one half as high as 

 the body below it ; it commences nearer to the base of the caudal fin 

 than to the front end of the snout, its upper edge is straight ; last 

 undivided ray articulated. Pectoral as long as the head excluding 

 the snout. Caudal forked. Lateral line incomplete, ceasing 

 about the seventh scale ; 4^ rows between it and the base of the 

 ventral fin, 12 rows anterior to the dorsal fin. Caudal peduncle 

 as high at its base as it is long. Colour silvery, darkest superiorly ; 

 a dark blotch on the side of the tail on about the seventeenth and 

 eighteenth rows of scales. 



Hob. Choya Saidan Shah in the Punjab salt-range. 



405. (67.) Barbus cosuatis. 



Cyprinus cosuatis, Ham. Buck. Fish. Gang. pp. 338, 392. 

 Barbus cosuatus, Dai/, Fish. India, p. 581, pi. cxliv, fig. 1 (see synon.). 

 Koswati, Beng. 



B. iii. D. 11 (3/8). P. 13. V. 9. A. 7 (2/5). C. 19. 

 L.I. 22. L. tr. 3/3. 



Length of head 4 to 4-J, height of body 3^ in the total length. 

 Eyes diameter 2^ to 2| in length of head, | diameter from 

 end of snout, 1 diameter apart. Fins dorsal without any osseous 

 ray; it commences midway between the end of the snout and the 

 base of the caudal fin, its upper edge is oblique and its height exceeds 

 that of the body below it. Lateral line incomplete, the row of 

 scales on which it is situated is larger than the others, 2 rows 

 between it and the base of the ventral fin ; 8 or 9 rows before the 

 base of the dorsal. Colour silvery, the scales having dark bases ; 

 a black band along the top of the dorsal, another across its middle, 

 another on the anterior anal rays. 



Hob. Bengal, through the N.W. Provinces, the Deccan and 

 Bombay, and down the Western coast as low as Kotayam in 

 Travancore. This species attains 2 or 3 inches in length. 



