1865.] MR. F, DAY ON THE FISHES OF COCHIN. 297 
large, the internal ray forming a broad spine, having a flattened ex- 
tremity internally, and terminating externally in a soft filamentous 
prolongation. The flat portion of the spine, which is only about 
half the length of the soft rays, lies against the side when the fin is 
at rest. Anal situated entirely in the posterior third of the total 
length ; its first ray undivided, its last divided to the root. Caudal 
slightly lobed. 
Scales very distinct over the whole of the body and cheeks ; none 
on the top of the head. Lateral line straight. 
Colours. Light brown, with irregular spots and bands. Dorsal 
spotted with brown. Caudal with four oblique bars of dark brown, 
and a brown bar at its base. 
The Carp order is most extensively distributed in the fresh waters 
around Cochin, as well as in inland situations, even to nearly the 
summits of the highest hills of the Western Ghauts. Some of these 
fish are kept in the large tanks inside the Hindu pagodas ; and even 
on the banks of the broad Shahlacoodee river stands a Hindu temple 
where they are regularly fed, and have become so tame as to come 
when called, and even take food from human hands. In the paddy- 
fields the smaller species are most abundant, and afford luxurious 
feasts not only to the multitudes of wading-birds that frequent Ma- 
labar, but also to the lower classes of natives. 
GARRA MALABARICA, Day, sp. nov. 
Wuttooree (Mal.). 
Pits oP oe Lo NGLO. 6 Aoi /Do09 ©. 19. Lele. 
L. tr. 4/3. Cirm 2. 
Length of specimen 4 inches. 
Length of head 4, of pectoral +, of base of dorsal 1, of base of 
anal 54, of total length. Height of head 4,, of body 4, of dorsal +, 
of anal + of the total length. Diameter of eye nearly } the length 
of head, eyes a little above 1 diameter from end of snout, nearly 
2 diameters apart. 
Profile rises as far as the occiput; thence to the caudal it is 
nearly straight. Under surface of body equally convex with that of 
the upper. Sides compressed. Back rather broad and flat, and 
nearly as wide as the body is deep. 
Mouth below ; upper jaw the longest ; the two lips united, thick, 
and covered with mucous pores, as is also the snout. Below the 
under jaw is an oval disk, the transverse diameter of which is a little 
wider than that of the eye. One pair of fleshy cirri on superior 
maxilla, and which are not above two-thirds of the length of the 
orbit. Snout broad, depressed. Eye nearer to the posterior than 
it is to the anterior extremity of the head; its superior surface is 
on the upper profile, and it looks upwards and outwards. Inter- 
orbital space nearly flat from side to side. Nostrils nearer to orbit 
than they are to the end of the snout. 
Fins. Dorsal situated rather nearer snout than it is to the base of 
