CYPR1NIDJE. CTPEININJE. 343 



B. iii. D. 11 (3/8). P. 15. V. 10. A. 16 (3/13). C. 20. 

 L. 1. 55. L. tp. 13/11. 



Length of head 5 to 6, height of body 3 to 3^ in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter 2f to 3| in length of head, f to 1 

 diameter from end of snout, 1| diameters apart. Dorsai profile 

 rather more convex than that of the abdomen. Lower jaw the 

 shorter. Barbels absent. Teeth pharyngeal, curved, pointed, 

 5, 4, 2/2, 4, 5. Fins dorsal osseous ray strong and coarsely 

 serrated. Caudal lobed in its last two thirds. Scales nine or 

 ten rows between lateral line and base of ventral fin. Colour 

 purplish silvery along the back, becoming silvery white from about 

 four rows of scales above the lateral line. The young sometimes 

 have a dark spot at the base of the caudal fin, and four or five 

 narrow black bands descending from the back to the middle of the 

 side. ' 



Hab. Deccan, the Kistna and Godavari rivers ; attaining 6 inches 

 or more in length. 



421. (7.) Rohtee cunma. 



Abramis cunma, Tickell, MSS. 



Roh tee cunma, Day, Fish. India, Suppl. p. 807. 



Nga-koon-ma, Burmese. 

 B. iii. D. 12 (3/9). P. 13. V. 10. A. 30. C. 18. L. 1. 44. 



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

 diameter 3 in the length of the head, 1 diameter from the end of 

 the snout and also apart. Profile over nape slightly concave, a 

 considerable rise from snout to base of dorsal fin ; snout somewhat 

 obtuse, upper jaw the longer. Fins dorsal anteriorly two thirds 

 as high as the body below it, commencing somewhat nearer to the 

 snout than to the base of the caudal fin, its spine weak and longer 

 than the head, not serrated. Caudal deeply forked, lower lobe 

 somewhat the longer. Lateral line strongly marked in its first 

 four scales. Colour olive above, becoming silvery on the sides 

 and below ; a brassy tinge along the lateral line and over the 

 cheeks and gill-covers. Fins amber; dorsal and caudal with a 

 narrow black edge. 



Hab. Colonel Tickell procured this species at Moulmein, where 

 he found it to be common. His figure is 5| inches long. 



24. G-enus BARILIUS, Hamilton Buchanan. 



Syn. Opsarius, sp., McClelland ; Pachystomw, Heckel ; Chedrus, 

 Swains. ; Shacra, Bleeker ; Opsaridium, Peters ; Pteropsarion and Bola 

 (not H. B.), Giinther. 



Abdomen rounded. Pseudobranchiae present. Mouth anterior, 

 sometimes oblique, having a moderate or deep cleft. Jaws com- 

 pressed, the lower usually with a knob above the symphysis, and an 

 emargination to receive it in the upper jaw. Suborbital ring of 

 bones generally broad, more especially the third, which may even 



