294 F.Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinidce. [No. 3, 



Barbus gibbosus, Cuv. and Val., xvi, p. 155 ; *Jerdon, M. J. L. and S. 1849, 

 p. 313. 



„ rubripinnis, Cuv. and Val., xvi, p. 194 ; Bleeker, Nat. Tyd. Ned, Ind. 

 ix, p. 193 ; Gtmther, Catal. vii, p. 116. 



„ orphoides, Cuv. et Val., xvi, p. 193. 



„ saramanella, Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiii, Oost — Java, p. 16. 

 Puntius (Barbodes) rubripinna, Bleeker, Prod. Cyp., p. 338, and Atl. Ich. 

 Cyp. p. 100, t. 33, f. 3. 



Systomus clirysopoma, Jerdon, M. J. L. and S. 1849, p. 314. 

 Barbus sarana, Cuv. and Val., xvi. p. 151 ; Jerdon, M. J. L. and S. 1849, 

 p. 312 j Gunther, Catal. vii, p. 121 ; Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 374. 

 Barbus caudimarginatus, Blyth, J. A. S. of B. 1860, p. 157. 

 Puntius clirysopoma, Bleeker, Cobit. et Cyprin. Ceylon, in Mem. Soc. Harl. 

 1864, p. 15, t. 3, f. 1. 

 „ sarana, Stein., Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien. lvi. 

 Barbus spilurus, Gunther, Catal. vii, p. 114. 



Uunduttee, Mai. ; Pungella, Tamil. ; Giddi kaoli, Durhie and Potah, 

 Hind. ; Gid-pahhe, Can. ; JTannaku, Tel. ; Sarana, Ooriah and Beng. 

 Jundoort, Punj . ; Nga-hhon-mah-gyee aud Nga-chong, Burmese. 



B. III. D. ^. P. 15. Y. 9. A. 3 -. C. 19. L. 1. 29—31. L. tr. |i . 



O O O 2" 



Length of head 1/5, of caudal 1/5, height of body 2/7 of the 

 total length. 



Eyes. Diameter in the immature 2/7, in the adult 1/4 of the 

 length of head, from 1 to 1£ diameters from end of snout, 2 dia- 

 meters apart. 



A considerable rise to the base of the dorsal fin : body com- 

 pressed. Head moderately broad, with the interorbital space con- 

 vex. Barbels about as long as the eye. 



Fins. Origin of dorsal nearly opposite ventrals, and midway 

 between the end of snout and base of caudal ; its last undivided 

 ray osseous and serrated posteriorly, the strength of which varies 

 with age and sex, its osseous portion is two-thirds as long as the 

 head, but subject to slight variation either way. 



Scales. There are from three to three and a half rows between 

 the lateral line and the base of the ventral fin. 



Colours. These vary considerably ; in some, more especially 

 when not in the breeding season, they are uniform with or with- 

 out a lateral blotch on the side of the tail generally darkest in the 



