1872.] F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprmidce. 29 



2/3 of the diameter of the orbit, the pair at the angle of the month thicker 

 and slightly longer. — Teeth: pharyngeal, ha one row, 5/5. — Fins : dorsal high- 

 est in front, arising midway between the end of the snont and the base of 

 the caudal. Pectoral nearly reaching the ventral. Caudal lobed in its 

 posterior third. — Scales : cycloid. — Lateral line : complete. — Colours : dull 

 olive, becoming yellowish beneath. Large brown blotches on the body. 

 Dorsal fin with three rows of dull spots ; pectoral and ventral with three or 

 four, anal with two, caudal with three irregular bands, and black tips. 

 Sab. — Wynaad ; 8 specimens taken up to 3-| inches in length. 



2. HoMALOPTEBA MACULATA. 

 Balitora metadata, Gray and Hard., Ind. Zool. ; *Cuv. and Val. xviii, p 102. 

 Platycara maculata, McClell., Ind. Cyp. pp. 299, 427, pi. 49, fig. 2. (From Gray 

 and H;ird.) 

 „ anisura, McClell., Cal. Joiirn. Nat. Hist, ii, p. 587, pi. 16, fig. 1. 



Homaloptera maculata, Gunther, Catal. vii, 340. 



B. III. D. 3/8, P. 21, V. 11, A. 2/5, C. 17, L. 1. 70, L. tr. 10/7. 



Length of head 2/13, of caudal 1/5 of the total length. — Eyes : 1\ 

 diameters from end of snout, 1 diameter from end of opercle. Snout broad and 

 depressed, with sharp margins ; rostral and maxillary barbels small. — Teeth : 

 pharyngeal, conical, in one row, 15/15. — Fins : pectoral nearly reaches the 

 ventral, its anterior nine rays are unbranched, as are also the first two of the 

 ventral. Lower caudal lobe the longer. — Scales : absent from chest and as 

 far as the posterior margin of the base of the ventrals. — Colours : dark brown 

 with darker blotches ; caudal banded. 



Sab. — Himalayas from about Darjeeling through Butan, Asam and 

 the Khasi Hills. 



3.* HOMALOPTEBA BILESTEATA. 

 Blytn, J. A. S. of Bengal, 1860, p. 172. 



B. III. D. 9, A. 6. 



Said to be affined to S. erythrorhina, Cuv. and Val., xviii, pi. 524. 



" A minute knob on the muzzle." — Colours : " A narrow dark line from 

 the muzzle to eye, continued behind the eye as a broad, irregular, somewhat 

 zigzag band, set off laterally with whitish, and joining its opposite behind 

 the dorsal fin. A corresponding but obscure band below the lateral line, 

 little seen on the hind half of the body. Dorsal with a large blotch of 

 black, and one small posterior spot. Caudal fin also black, with the sides of 

 its base and the forking tips white (or yellow ?), but the extreme tips black. 

 Pectorals, ventrals, and anal, blotched with black ; sides of body somewhat 

 nigrescent." 



Sab. — Tenasserim provinces ; the largest specimen obtained was 2f- 

 inches long. 



(To be continued.) 



