1871."] F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cfyprinida, 121 



Fins. — Dorsal arises some distance in advance of the ventrals, its 

 upper edge is slightly concave. Caudal lunate. 



Lateral line : — 6^- rows between it and the base of the ventral fin. 



Colours — uniform. 



Habitat. — Fresh- waters from Orissa through India to Burma, 

 attaining three feet in length. 



Hamilton Buchanan observes that it is perhaps the most excel- 

 lent and valuable of all the fresh water fishes of Bengal, where it 

 is propagated with considerable care, but he considered those 

 which are taken in the small and rapid rivers, by far the best for 

 eating. McClelland also remarks that there are several varieties, 

 no doubt the result of domestication. 



10. * 4 Labeo morala. 



Gyprinus morala, Ham. Buch. Fish. Granges, pp. 331, 391, pi. 18, 

 f. 91 ; *McClell. Ind. Cyp. pp. 267, 326 ; Gray and Hardwicke, 111. 

 Ind. Zool. 



Gyprinus pausius, Ham. Buch., 1. c. pp. 332, 392. 



,, musiha, Ham. Buch., 1. c. pp. 332, 392, *Cuv. and Val. 

 XVI, p. 439. 



Rohita morala* Cuv. and Yal. XVI, p. 263. 



Labeo morala, Griinther, Catal. VII. p. 56. 



Morala, Beng. 



B. III. D. ^ P. 16, V. 9, A. 3/5, 0. 19, L. 1. 31 (in figure). 



Length of head 1/4, height of body 1/4 of the entire length, 

 according to the figure. 



Eyes : — " High flat and of moderate size ;" in the figure they are 

 situated rather posterior to the centre of the length of the head. 



The lips are thick, the lower one being fringed. The G. morala 

 and G. pausius are stated to have u minute" barbels. Dr. Griinther 

 says they are " about as Ion* as the eye," but as he does not ap- 

 pear ever to have seen the species, his description is probably in- 

 accurate, being taken from the figure in which they disagree with 

 the text. Hamilton Buchanan also observes of the C. musiha that 

 u it differs from the description of the morala in nothing but the 

 want of tendrils, and those of the morala are so minute, that I have 

 some doubts of their being a sufficient mark of distinction." (p. 333). 



Fins. — " The dorsal is before the middle and its edge forms a 



