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extremely fine towards the end. A large round dark spot on each 

 side, situate on the lateral line, a little anterior to the dorsal fin. 

 Tenasserim. 



Fam. Ct/prinidce. 



Barbes caedimarginates, nobis, n. s. One of those Ststomi 

 (for such they essentially are) which, having four barbules or tenta- 

 cles, are currently assigned to the great and comprehensive genus 

 Barbes : such are the B. gordonides and B. chrtsopoma figured 

 by Valenciennes, and the B. sarana, (B. H), Val., which is S. 

 immaculatus as described by McClelland.* In the present species 

 the barbules are well developed, the form less deep than usual in the 

 particular group, the principal dorsal spine robust and passing into a 

 soft ray for its terminal fourth, being finely pectinated behind, and 

 preceded by three distinct spines, the first very minute. About 82 

 scales on the lateral line, and ten longitudinal series of scales. 

 D. 4,-8.— A. 7 (the last divided). 



Colour silvery, above darker and greenish ; with an irregular ver- 

 tical black mark behind the gills, and broad black upper and lower 

 margins to the caudal fin ; the rest of the caudal, with the ventrals 

 and anal, bright crimson (which soon disappears in spirit). Length 

 4 in., by If in. from dorsal to ventrals. Vertical diameter of the 

 eye fully half that of the head. Irides pale golden. Tenasserim 

 provinces.f 



Capoeta itacrolepidota (?), K. et v. H. Specimen 2 in. long. 

 No serrature discernible on the dorsal spine, and I distinguish seven 

 anal rays. The late Dr. Cantor gives this species as inhabiting the 

 Tenasserim provinces; and it and Lettciscus rasbora are the only 



* His figure (As. Ties. XIX, II, PI. XL, f. 5), I take, from the colouring, to 

 represent a common species of Systomus with one pair of very minute tentacula, 

 otherwise resembling S. sophobe except in the absence of markings. For this 

 the name immacttlatus might be retained. It grows to about double the size 

 of S. sophobe. 



f 'Black and red-tailed Systomus' of the Rev. F. Mason's 'Natural Produc- 

 tions of Burma.' Several species are indicated in this work, as Rohita vplga- 

 bis, R. calbasu, and R. nandina ; also a large Barbel alfined to B. tor, (B. H.), 

 which he terms B. moetonius ; and a mountain Barbs} with minute scales, 

 of the Obeijjus group, which requires examination. 



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