1872.] F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinidce. 197 



1/5 of the total length. Eyes ; diameter 1/6 of length of head, 2 diameters 

 from end of snout and apart. Fins ; dorsal commences midway between 

 end of snout and base of caudal fin, which is slightly emarginated. Scales, 

 minute. Lateral line, complete. Colours, dirty olive along the hack 

 becoming light on the abdomen. Nine bars pass from the back towards 

 the lateral line, and also a number of irregular bands descend to the same 

 distance ; a dark bar at the base of the caudal. Dorsal with two bars, the 

 lowest sometimes red. Caudal with three wide bars. 

 Hah . — Malabar. 



38.* Nemacheilus turio. 



Colitis turio, Ham. Buch , Pish. Ganges, pp. 358, 395 ; *Cuv. and Val., xviii, p. 33. 



„ giblosa, McOlell., Ind. Cyp., pp. 304, 436, pi. 52, fig. 7, (from H. B.'s MS.). 



„ arenata, Val. in Jacq. Voy. Ind. Poiss., pi. 15, fig. 1 ; Cuv. and Val.,xviii, p. 28. 

 Nemacheilus turio, *Gunther, Catal., vii, p. 360. 



Turi, Assam. 



B. III. D. 8 (10 ?), P. 12, V. 8, A. 7, C. 19. 



Length of head (according to figure) about 1/5, of caudal 1/5, height 

 of body 1/5 of the total length. Eyes, of moderate size. Free portion of 

 tail appears higher than long. Back elevated. Mns; pectoral nearly 

 reaches the ventral. Caudal emarginate. Colours ; body irregularly spotted 

 and blotched. 



Sab. — Assam. 



39.* Nemacheilus guttattts. 



Colitis guttata, McOlell., Ind. Cyp., pp. 305, 438, pi. 52, fig. 5, 6 ; *Cuv. and Val 

 xviii, p. 79. 



*Nemachilus guttatus, Gunther, Catal., vii, p. 360. 



B. III. D. 8. 



This species is said to have only four barbels. Colours, light green 

 with dark blotches. 



Sab. — Joorhath in Upper Assam. 



Genus. 10. Oeeonectes, Gunther. 



Seacl depressed, body scarcely compressed. JVo suborbital spine. Site 

 barbels round the upper jaw. Dorsal fin placed far backwards at some 

 distance behind the root of the ventrals ; caudal rounded. 



Sab. — China. 



Genus. 11. Misgurnus, Lacep. 



Cobitichthts, BleeJcer. 



Body elongated and compressed. No suborbital spine. Ten or twelve 

 barbels, four being on the mandible. Dorsal Jin arising opposite the ven- 

 trals. Caudal rounded. 



