304 F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinida. [No. 3, 



thereabouts they are excellent eating. A noted sportsman in the 

 N. W. Provinces writing to me says, his largest fish taken with a 

 rod and line was captured " in the river Poonch 24 miles from 

 Jhelum, it measured from snout to bifurcation of tail 3 feet 

 11 inches and weighed 62 lb." ** " the cube of a fish's length 

 gives his weight in pounds ; fish may vary a pound or two according 

 to condition, but the test is wonderfully correct." 



17. Barbus (Barhodes) sophore. 



Cyprinus sophore, Ham. Buch, Fish. Ganges, pp. 310, 389, pi. 19, f. 86. 

 ? Barbus micropogon, Cuv. and Val., xvi, p. 188. 



„ sophore, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 376, (not Giinther). 



B. III. D. 3/9, P. 15, V. 9, A. 2/5, L. 1. 25, L. tr. 3|/4& 



Length of head 1/4 of length of body, height of body slightly 

 more. 



Eyes. Eather more than 1/3 of length of head, 1 diameter 

 from end of snout and apart. 



Cleft of mouth extending to below the orbit. The rostral bar- 

 bels reach the anterior margin of the eye, the maxillary ones to 

 below its centre. 



Fins. Dorsal ray weak, osseous, entire, and as long as the head 

 without the snout : the fin arises slightly before the ventral, and 

 midway between the end of the snout and the root of the caudal. 



Lateral line — 2J rows between it and the base of the ventral. 



There is an old bleached specimen in the Calcutta Museum* 3£ 

 inches long to the base of the caudal fin, which last is injured from 

 pressure. Specimens in bottles should rest on their heads not on 

 their more fragile tails. Systomus sophore, McClelland, is the same 

 as Barbus stigma, C. V. 



18. Barbus (Barhodes) innominatus. 



Leuciscus binotatus, Blyth, J, A. S. of B., 1858, p. 290, (not K. and v. H.) 

 Barbus inniominatus, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 556. 



B. III. D. 3/9, P. 15, Y. 9, A. 2/5, C. 17, L. 1. 24, L. tr. 4*/4*. 

 Length of head 2/7, of caudal nearly 2/7, height of body 2/7 

 of the total length. 



* Since the above was written the Museum has received about a dozen more 

 small specimens from the Khasi Hills. 



