1869.] SURGEON F. DAY ON THE FISHES OF ORISSA. 379 
Scales in regular rows, each scale having a few round elevated 
spots upon it. Three and a half rows between the lateral line and 
the base of the ventral fin. 
_ Lateral line first curves gently downwards ; subsequently it is con- 
tinued to just below the centre of the base of the caudal fin. 
Colours. Canary-colour, with the back stained grey, and from seven 
to nine broad and deep blue bands extending from the back to the 
abdominal profile. Dorsal fin stained with grey in its upper third, 
as is also the caudal in its posterior third. 
Hab. Cossye river, attaining 3 inches in length, and said not to 
be common; however, I obtained eleven specimens. A variety 
exists in the Mahanuddi, the eye being somewhat smaller, opercle 
less wide, but otherwise similar. 
Genus OpsarIvs. 
Opsarius, sp., M‘Clelland. 
Bola, Giinther, preoccupied by Genus VI. in Hamilton Bucha- 
nan’s ‘ Fishes of the Ganges,’ p. 73. 
112. Opsarrus coua, H. Buch. 
Leuciscus salmonoides, Blyth. 
Bugguah (Bengali). 
B. iii, D.Z. PL13. V9. ALS. C.19. L188. Ltr. %. 
Hab. Cossye river at Midnapore. 
Genus Bouter, Sykes, 1841. 
Osteobrama, Heckel, 1842. 
113. Rourrer vicorstt, Sykes. 
Osteobrama rapaz, Giinther. 
Gollund (Ooriah). 
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Dr. Giinther considers that Colonel Sykes’s species is identical 
with Rohtee (Cyprinus) cotio, H. Buch.; but if the two figures pl. 39. 
f. 93, ‘Fishes of the Ganges,’ and t. 63. f. 3, of Sykes’s ‘ Fishes of 
the Dekkun,’ are compared, the distinction is apparent. In the 
former the ends of the jaws are even in front ; in the latter the lower 
jaw projects. Besides this I obtained numbers of this species in the 
Kistna river, from one of whose tributaries some of Col. Sykes’s 
specimens were probably procured ; on the other hand I could not 
find the R. cotio in that river. Col. Sykes appears to have written 
29 instead of 26 rays for the anal fiv, but a few more or less does 
not seem to have been considered of great moment, especially as 
the drawing gives 36. 
Hab. Rivers and tanks in Orissa. 
