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



Eyes. Diameter nearly 1/2 of length, of head, 1/3 of a diameter 

 from end of snout, 1 diameter apart. 



Fins. Dorsal osseous ray strong, serrated, the fin commences 

 over the ventrals, and midway between end of snout and base of the 

 caudal ; its upper border slightly concave. Caudal emarginate. 



Lateral line — complete, slightly concave in the first part of its 

 course. 



Colours. Olive green superiorly, becoming white on the abdo- 

 men. A diffused black spot on the twentieth and twenty-first 

 scales of the lateral line. The anterior half of the fourth scale from 

 the opercle, in the row next below the lateral line, black. Fins 

 yellowish, dorsal and anal tipped with orange. Dorsal with two 

 rows of black spots, and anteriorly a short intermediate one. 



Hab % Malabar, it does not appear to exceed three inches in 

 length. 



48. Barbus (Puntius) phutunto. 



Cyprinus jpliutunio, Ham. Buch., Fish. Gang. pp. 319, 390 i *Cuv. and Val. 

 xvi, p. 395. 



Systomus leptosomus, McClell. Ind. Cyp. pp. 287, 387, pi. 44, f. 2, (from 

 Ham. Buch. MSS.) 



Systomus plmtunio, Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. Batav. xxv, Bengal, p. 128, and 

 Cyp. and Cobit. in Nat. Verh. Holl. Maatsch. Haarl. 1864-65, p. 12, t. 4. f. 4. 



Barbus „ *Gtmther, Catal. vii, p. 154 j Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, 



p. 375. 



Barbus Cwmingii, Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 155. 



Kudji-kerundi, Ooriah ; JBhutuni pungti, Beng. 



B. III. D.^, P. 15, V. 9, A. 3/5, C. 19, L. 1. 20—23, L. tr. 8—10. 



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Length of head 1/4, of caudal 1/4, height of body 1/3 of the 

 total length. 



Eyes. Diameter 2/5 of length of head, 3/4 of a diameter from 

 end of snout, 1 diameter apart. 



Dorsal profile more elevated than the abdominal. Mouth small. 

 Barbels absent. 



Fins. Dorsal osseous ray serrated, the serratures often becom- 

 ing indistinct in the adult : the fin commences opposite the ventrals, 

 and midway between the end of the snout and the base of the 



