345 



D. 9, A. 13, L. 1. 70-75. Two rows of 



spots .............................. 12. B. tileo, p. 351. 



D. 9, A. 14-15, L. 1. 40. Silvery ........ 13. .B. eoezardi, p. 352. 



D. 10-11, A. 13, L. 1. 88-94. Two rows 



of blotches ........................ 14. B. bola, p. 352. 



422. (1.) Barilius vagra. 



Cyprinus vagra, Ham. Buck. Fish. Ganges, pp. 269, 385. 

 Barilius vagra, Day, Fish. India, p. 589, pi. cxlviii, fig. 3 (see synon.). 

 Lo-har-ree and Charl, Punj. ; Mon-e-o-ree, Assam. 



B. iii. D. 9(2/7). P. 16. V.9. A. 13-15 (2-3/11-12). C. 19. 

 L. 1. 42-44. L. tr. 7-8/4. Vert. 16-23. 



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

 length. Eyes diameter 3^ to 4 in length of head, 1 diameter 

 from end of snout and 1| apart. The posterior extremity of the 

 maxilla extends to beneath the middle of the orbit; lower jaw 

 slightly the longer. Third suborbital bone twice as deep as the 

 uncovered portion of the cheek below it. Jaws of equal length 

 anteriorly, the upper sometimes a little notched, the lower covered 

 with large pores in the adult. Axillary process very short. 

 Barbels rostral nearly half as long as the head, maxillary pair 

 very short. Teeth pharyngeal, crooked, 5, 3, 2/2, 3, 5. Fins 

 dorsal commencing midway between the posterior edge of the 

 orbit and the root of the caudal, its last two rays being over the 

 anal ; pectoral not quite so long as the head ; caudal deeply forked. 

 Scales 2 to 2-| rows between lateral line and base of ventral fin ; 

 20 rows before base of dorsal. Colour silvery, 10 to 14 dark bands 

 (sometimes indistinct) descend from the back to the lateral line ; 

 fins yellowish, the edge of the caudal stained greyish. 



Hob. Sind hills, rivers in the Himalayas and Sub-Himalayan 

 range, Jumna and Ganges, also the Punjab, Assam, and Ceylon. 

 This species attains above 5 inches in length. 



423. (2.) Barilius modestus. 



Barilius (Pachystomus) modestus, Day, J. A. S. B. xli, 1872, p. 4. 

 Barilius modestus, Day, Fish. India, p. 589, pi. cli, fig. 3 (see synon.). 

 Laccya, Arabi. 



B. iii. D. 9 (2/7). P. 15. V. 9. A. 12-13 (2/10-11). C. 19. 



L. 1. 43. L. tr. 6/4. 



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

 diameter 4 in the length of head and situated in its anterior 

 half, 1 diameter from end of snout and also apart. Suborbital 

 ring of bones wide, the third nearly touching the preopercular 

 ridge. Upper jaw slightly the longer, and notched at its end in 

 large examples. The posterior extremity of the maxilla reaches to 

 below the middle of the orbit, Barbels rostral extend to beneath 



