1S72.] F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinida. 323 



is only another inaccuracy, as Vol. vii of the Catalogue is dated November 

 1st, 1S67, and contains the description I have adverted to. 



Genus. Scaphiodon, Heckel. 



Capoeta, sp. Chondrostoma, sp. Cuv. and Val. 

 Dillonia and G-ymnostomus, sp. Heckel. 



Abdomen rounded, snout rounded ; mouth transverse, inferior, having the 

 mandibular edge nearly straight and sharp, the mandibles angularly bent in- 

 wards. A horny layer inside the loioer jaiv, which last is not covered by lip. 

 JVo lower labial fold. Barbels four, two, or absent. Pharyngeal teeth com- 

 pressed, truncated, 5 or 4, 3, 2/2, 3, 4 or 5. Dorsal fin of moderate extent (up 

 to about ten branched rays), its last undivided ray being osseous and serrated, 

 or else articulated ; anal rather short. Scales large, of moderate or small 



transfer of its fish collection to the British Museum) for types of Colonel Sykes's paper 

 I failed to discover them." 



In the Catalogue of the fishes of the British Museum, by Dr. Giinther, Yol. v, p. 46, 

 is "a. 6. eight and a half to nine and a half inches long. Dukhuu. From Colonel Sykes's 

 collection, types of Schilbe pabo, Sykes'." At p. 76, under Macrones cavasius is a specimen 

 " from the collection of Colonel Sykes" about the same size as his published figure. At 

 page 187 under Glyptosternum lonah is " a. Type of the species from the collection of Col. 

 Sykes." Thus in the Catalogue of the fishes of the British Museum the possession of 

 some of Sykes' types is asserted, but where they came from I believe is not known ; Col. 

 Sykes's name is not referred to, that I see, when the collections in B. I. Co. Museum are 

 mentioned, though Cantor's, Griffith's and McClelland's are. Still it seems that I was 

 mistaken in considering this skin as one from the collection of the Zoological Society, 

 whose donor's name was omitted from the Catalogue, and which had on it a label with 

 one of Col. Sykes's names, as being one of his types. 



Respecting my being assisted, as Dr. Giinther more than insinuates, in determin. 

 ing the species by his having erroneously (as he believes) written P. taakree on the 

 bottle, a slight reference to dates again disposes of this. My first insjDection of this 

 skin was in 1870, whdst in the Broc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 617, I observed when writing 

 from Barma — " The Pseudeutropius taakree, Sykes, or P. longimanus, Giinther, is to- 

 lerably abundant in the Irrawadi and its branches." Since then I have received 

 it from Buna in the Dakhin (Deccan). 



Lastly Dr. Giinther states the skin which is 6 inches long (Sykes's figure is 5 T T -r) 

 " had been presented with others to the Society by Mr. Willie in 1834, — that is five 

 (four ?) years before Col. Sykes communicated his paper to the Zoological Society." 

 To complete this observation, I may continue that Col. Sykes left India in 1831, and 

 though the " fishes of the Dekhun" were published in 1841, he expressly observes in 

 a note, that " although the preceding details respecting the fishes of the Dekhun were 

 comprised in a report to the Court of Directors of the Bast India Company in June, 

 1831, they were only communicated to the Zoological Society on the 27th November, 

 1838." Thus the Zoological Society obtained the specimen (Pimelodus vacha, as regis- 

 tered, not very closely resembling a Pseudeutropius) three years after Col. Sykes re- 

 turned to Europe and subsequent to the time when his manuscript had been complet- 

 ed and given to the E. I. Company. 



