348 F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinida. [No. 4, 



any cartilaginous membrane. Length of cleft of mouth equals 

 that of the gape. Interorbital space flat. Lower labial fold 

 interrupted. Barbels longer than the eye. 



Fins. Dorsal commences between the anterior extremity of the 

 snout, and the base of the caudal, its osseous ray is stout, nearly 

 as long as the head, and posteriorly with strong, closely set den- 

 ticulations. Anal, when laid flat reaches base of caudal, which 

 latter is forked. 



Scales — minute, the anal row moderately developed, the largest 

 scales in it being half as broad as the orbit. 



Colours. Body with numerous blackish dots. 



Hal. Cashmere and Afghanistan, attaining at least ten inches 

 in length. 



18. *SCHIZ0TH0RAX BREYIS. 



Racoma hrevis, McClelland, Cal. J. 1ST. H. ii, p. 578. 



B. III. D. 2/7, P. 20, V. 11, A. 7, C. 19. 



Head short and compressed. The depth of the body nearly 

 equal to one third of its length. 



Lips covered with a thick fleshy membrane which forms a loose 

 appendage to the lower jaw. 



Fins — small, the fin membranes, strong, the rays slender, and 

 the dorsal spine slender and soft. 



Sab. Helmund river. 



Genus. Oeeinus, McClell. PI. xxii, f, 3, 4. 



Schizothorax, Sect. A, HecTcel. 

 Schizopyge, sp. Heclcel. 



Abdomen rounded. Snout rounded, mouth inferior and transverse, 

 mandibles short, broad, and flat, loosely joined together at the symphysis, 

 margin of the lower jaw having a thick homy covering, thickest 

 internally, and a thick fringed lower lip ivith a free posterior edge, 

 forming a sucker (*). Barbels four. Pharyngeal teeth pointed, hooked, 

 5, 3, 2/2, 3, 5. Dorsal fin rather short, with a strong, osseous, serrated 



* The fact, that the large lower lip in Oreinus formed a sucker with its free 

 posterior edge, has only been ascertained by me since the commencement of 

 this Monograph was printed, and this will account for the genus being placed 

 here, instead of following Discognathus. 



