1870.] SURGEON F. DAY ON INDIAN FISHES. 373 
The species, if it is distinct, which exists in South Canara, is the 
B. mosal, H. B., whilst I have taken the B. tor in the Bowany and 
also in Orissa. In the Calcutta Museum are two specimens of the 
latter variety. 
The question is, are the B. morsal and the B. tor the same? and 
this must be decided by fresh investigations in India. The difference 
between the two does not depend on age, as I have examined both 
from 6 to 30 inches in length; neither does it depend on season, 
which I have not found to exercise any influence: it may be due to 
sex ; but I doubt it. 
The number of rays, scales, and the proportions of the two fishes, 
posterior to the eye, appear to be identical ; but the great differences 
are in advance of that organ. 
In the B. tor the snout is pointed and compressed, the lower jaw 
being the shortest, the mouth is somewhat deeply cleft, whilst car- 
tilaginous thick lips exist in both jaws, forming a lobe above and 
below; the summit of the head is mostly flattened. 
In the B. mosal the snout is rounded and not compressed, the 
jaws of equal length, the mouth is not deeply cleft, and there are no 
thickened cartilaginous lips. The summit of the head is convex. 
Both Barbus (Barbodes) conirostris, Giinther, and Barbus (Bar- 
bodes) carnaticus, Jerdon, were found to be common in the Wynaad 
and rivers around their bases. They were also received from Man- 
galore. It appears not improbable that Barbus mysorensis, Jerdon, 
is the same as B. conirostris, Ginther.. The species I termed 
B. dubius, I find, has five series of scales between the lateral line and 
the base of the ventral fin. 
Barsus (Capoeta) AMPHIBIUS, C. & V. 
Systomus carnaticus, Jerdon. 
Cuvier and Valenciennes have stated their species has no lateral 
blotch on the side of the tail, whilst the B. carnaticus has one. 
Having examined several of my fresh specimens, with an old one in the 
British Museum, in which the lateral blotch appears to have become 
bleached, no difference is apparent. 
Barsus (Carports) AruLivs, Jerdon. 
I find, on examining a large number of fine specimens of this 
species, obtained in the Wynaad, that it has a maxillary pair of fine 
long barbels. 
Barixivs GATENSIS, C. & V. 
? Opsarius malabaricus, Jerdon. 
Barilius rugosus, Day. 
Having obtained numerous specimens of this fish from the rivers 
of the Western Ghauts, whence Cuvier’s also were procured, I find it 
apparently identical with the B. rugosus of the Neilgherries. The 
remark in Cuv. & Val., however, that the cheek is entirely covered 
by the suborbital ring, is erroneous; a portion equal to about one- 
