866 PISCES. 



into their mouths. They also offered no objections to their feelers being felt and 

 pulled, and the devout Burman is wont to adorn their heads with gold leaf, as a 

 work of merit. 



Genus Exostoma, Blyth. 



EXOSTOMA ANDERSONI, Day. 



Exostoma andersoni, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1869, p. 524. 



Two specimens, 5"60 inches long, from Ponsee, smaU mountain stream. 

 Two specimens, 6 inches long, from Hotha, small mountain stream. 



Ya.milj—CTPRINIDJE. 



Genus Caeassius, Nilsson. 



Caeassius atjeattjs, Linn. 



Ci/prinus mirakis, Linn., Syst. Nat., vol. i, 1766, p. 527. 



Carassiiis auratus, Bleeker, Cypr., p. 255, and Atl. Ichth. Cypr., p. 74 ; Giinther, Cat. Fish. 

 B. M., vol. vii, 1868, p. 32. 



One specimen from Tagoung ; many specimens to 6 inches in length, Tengyue- 

 chow, and seven domesticated specimens, Mandalay. 



The gold carp is very prevalent in the streams about at Tengyuechow, and it is 

 largely sold m. the bazaar. 



Genus Catla, Cuv. & Val. 

 Catla buchanani, Cuv. & Val. 



Cyprinus catla, Ham. Bucli., Fish., Ganges, pp. 287, 318, 387, 1822, pi. xiii, fig. 81. 

 Catla bucJianani, Cuv. & "V'al., vol. svii, 1844, p. 411, pi. 515; Giinther, Cat. Fish., B. M. 

 vol. vii, 1868, p. 34. 



Two specimens, 12 inches long, from Tagoung. 



Genus Cieehina, Cuv. 



ClEEHINA MEIGALA, Ham. Buch. 



Cypnnus mrigala, Ham. Buch., Fish., Ganges, pp. 279, 386, 1822, pi. vi, fig. 79. 

 CirrUna mrigala, Giinther, Cat. Fish., vol. vii, 1868, p. 35 ; Day, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xl, 

 1871, p. 135, pi. ix, fig. 6 a, h. 



Two specimens, 10 inches long, Tagoung; 



