1871.] F.Day— Monograph of Indian Cyprini&cB, 319 



Colours. Silvery, with a tinge of yellow. 



Hub. Deccan, and throughout the Kistna and Tamboodra 

 rivers. It attains upwards of a foot in length. 



38. *Babbus {Capoeta) curmuca. 



Cyprinus curmuca, Buchanan's Journey Mysore, III. p. 334, pi. xxx ; Fishes 

 of Ganges, pp. 294, 387 ; *Mo01elland, Ind. Cyp. pp . 276, 353. 

 Gobio curmuca et Canarensis, Jerdon, M. J. L. and S. 1849, p. 306. 

 „ curmuca, *Cuv. and Val. xvi, p. 317. 



B. III. D. 3/8, P. 16, V. 9, A. 3/5, C. 18. 



Dr. Jerdon obtained in the Arriacode river near Paulghaut a 

 fish apparently the same as Buchanans, and which he consideied 

 to be closely allied to, if not identical with the Barbus Icolus, Sykes. 

 Having seen his sketches, I must coincide as to suspecting the two 

 to be identical, but unfortunately his specimens have been lost, 

 whilst the B. Icolus has not been recorded south of the Kistna, so 

 the question must be still left open. There were 42 rows of scales 

 along the lateral line and 18 obliquely, in Dr. Jerdon's specimens 

 from which the drawings were made. The form of the body and 

 head were the same, with some open glands on the snout and 

 below the eyes. 



Fins. No osseous dorsal ray. 



Lateral line — complete. 



Hub. Fresh waters of Southern India, attaining three feet in 

 length. Dr. Jerdon observes as to locality that it is " from the 

 rivers of Palghaut, and Arriacode in south Malabar where it is very 

 common, and I have as yet seen it in no other locality and cer- 

 tainly it is not a common fish in Mysore, or I must have seen it. 

 Buchanan, I may mention, passed over the very locality whence 

 my specimens were obtained in his journey through Mysore." 



39. Barbus (Capoeta) Denisonii. 



Labeo Denisonii, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 299. 

 Puntius Denisonii, Day, Fish. Malabar, p. 212, pi. 16, f. 2. 

 Barbus Denisonii, Gunther, Catal. vii, p. 146. 



B. III. D. -g-, P. 15, V. 9, A. 3/5, C. 19, L. I. 28, L. tr. 4J/&1. 



Length of head 1/6, of caudal 1/5, height of body 1/5 of the total 

 length. 



