176 F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinidae. [No. 3, 



Colitis Mysorensis, Jerdon, M. J. L. and S., 1849, p. 332. 

 Platacantlius agrensis, Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 204, pi. 14, f. i. 



Assaree, Tarn. ; Jubhi cowri, Uriah ; Bdlu, Hind. 



B. III. D. 3/6. P. 7. V. 7. A. 2/5. C. 16. 



Length of head 1/11, of candal 1/8, height of body 1/8 of the total 

 length. Barbels eight, the longest extending to below the anterior margin 

 of the orbit. Suborbital spine, strong. Fins. — Origin of dorsal slightly in 

 advance of the ventral, and nearer the root of the caudal than the snout. 

 Caudal slightly emarginate. The inner pectoral ray is modified in adult 

 males into a flat osseous spine which is used for diving down into the mud. 

 Scales distinct. I found 2,500 eggs in one female. Colours, sandy, with 

 irregular blotches on the lateral line, and others along the back ; a black 

 spot generally exists, at the base of the upper half of the caudal fin. Dorsal 

 fin with black spots, caudal with four bands. A dark streak often extends 

 from the eye to the end of the snout. 



Sab. — Southern India, the Malabar coast and Ceylon. 



2, Lepidocephalichthys balgaba. 

 Colitis lalgara, Ham. Buch., Fish. Gang. pp. 356, 394 ; Cut. and Val., xviii p. 74. 

 Bchistwra lalgara, McClell., Ind. Cyp., p. 307, pi. 53, f. 2. (from H. B.'s MS.). 



„ aculeata, McClell , 1, c. p. 307 ; Cuv. and Yal. xviii, p. 70. 

 Lejpidoceplialichthys lalgara, Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 365 ; Day, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 70. 

 ? Colitis Camaticus, Jerdon, M. J. L. and S., 1849, p. 331. 



Jubbi cowri, Uriah. 



B. III. D. 2/6. V. 7. A. 2/5. 



This species closely resembles the preceding. Suborbital spine small, 

 and decreasing with age. Dorsal fin not in advance of the ventrals ; caudal 

 cut square. In one male specimen, taken in the Ganges at Hardwar, the 

 inner pectoral ray was of the same character as in the last species. Colours, 

 clouded with brown along the back, lighter on the abdomen ; the whole of 

 the body dotted over with lines of black spots ; a black mark at the top of 

 the base of the caudal. Six to eight rows of spots along the dorsal fin, and 

 about ten sinuous and broken up lines of spots on the caudal. 



Sab. — India generally. In some specimens from the Soane river, the 

 mandibular barbels are sub-divided. 



Genus. 7. Botia, Gray. 



Hymenophysa, McClelland. 



Body oblong, compressed, with the dorsal profile more or less convex. 

 Eyes with a free, circular eyelid. Barbels six to eight ; if six, all are 

 on the snout and upper jaw, if eight the extra ones are on the mandible. 

 A bifid, erectile, suborbital spine present. Dorsal fin commences anterior 

 to the root of the ventral ; caudal forked. Air bladder in two divisions, the 



