334 TELEOSTEl. PIIYSOSTOMI. 



scales, and before the base of the caudal fin. A very curious 

 change occurs in this fish immediately after death, the whole of 

 its body becoming scarlet. Caudal red, tipped with black and 

 edged with white ; dorsal and ventral nearly black. 



Hab. Western coast and Southern India ; attaining 6 inches in 

 length. This form is similar to B. mahecola except in wanting 

 barbels. 



408. (70.) Barbus puntio. 



Cyprinus puntio, Ham. Such. Fish. Ganges, pp. 318, 389. 



Barbus puntio, Day, Fish. India, p. 582, pi. cxlv, fig. 6 (see synon.). 



B. iii. D. 11(3/8). P. 15. V. 9. A. 7(2/5). C. 21. 

 L. 1. 23. L. tr. 5/4. 



Length of head 4 to 4^, height of body 3 to 3% in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter two fifths of length of head, i to of a 

 diameter from end of snout, 1 diameter apart. Fins last undivided 

 dorsal ray osseous and entire, the fin commences rather in advance 

 of the ventrals. Lateral line only extending distinctly for a few 

 scales, but very indistinctly to the base of the caudal fin ; 2-1- rows 

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

 dorsal fin. Colour silvery, a wide black band encircles the free 

 portion of the tail, and includes the tip of the anal fin. Dorsal 

 orange, tipped with black. 



Hab. Bengal and Burma, attaining about 3 inches in length. 



20. Genus NUEIA, Cuv. & Val. 

 Syn. Esomus, Swainson. 



Abdomen rounded. Pseudobranchiao present. Mouth narrow, 

 directed obliquely upwards ; suborbitals broad. Barbels four, the 

 rostral shorter than the maxillary pair ; pharyngeal teeth crooked, 

 pointed, 5/5. Dorsal fin without osseous ray, and with but few 

 branched ones ; it is inserted behind the ventral, but does not 

 extend to over the anal ; the latter has but few branched rays or a 

 moderate number. Scales of moderate size. Lateral line, when 

 present, passing to the lower half of the base of the caudal fin. Gill- 

 rakers short. 



409. (1.) Nuria danrica. (Fig. 106.) 



Cyprinus danrica, Ham. Such. Fish. Ganges, pp. 325, 390, pi. xvi, 



fig. 88. 

 Nuria danrica, Day, Fish. India, p. 583, pi. cxlv, fig. 7 (var. mala- 



barica) and fig. 8 (var. alto) (see synon.). 



Danrica and Jow/ja, Berg. ; Kurriah dahwiee, Hind. ; Purroovoo, Tamil ; 

 Soomarah, Hind. '(N.W. Prov.) ; Chid-diil-lu, Punjabi ; Kati, Mahr. ; 

 Mola and Mah-wa, N.W. Prov. ; Nya-zin-byoon, Burmese. 



