562 PHTSOSTOMI. 



EaUtat.—'FTom fresh waters at Coconada down the East coast of India to Ceylon, and inland as far as 

 the Neilgherries, also along the Western ghauts and rivers at their bases. The_ largest example obtained was 

 10^ inches in length. This form and B. chrysopoma may be merely varieties of a single species, whilst 

 B. sarana is closely allied. The example figured (life-size) was from the Wynaad. 



6. Barbus pleurotsenia. 



Ptmtms (Ba/rbodes) pleurotcema, Bleeker, Oobit. et Cypr. Ceylon, in Nat. Verb. Holl. Maatsch. Harl. 

 1864, p. 13, t. 8, f. 2. 



Bwrbus plev/rotcmia, Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 120. 



B. iii, D. 11 (f), P. 14, V. 9, A. 8 (I), C. 19, L. 1. 27-29, L. tr. 6/4#. 



Length of head about Si, of caudal 5, height of body 4 in the total length. %es— diameter 2/7 of 

 length of head, 1 to If diameters from end of snout, and slightly more apart. Body compressed, a Httle 

 elevated ; upper jaw slightly the longer. Lower labial fold interrupted. Ba/rhels — both pairs somewhat longer 

 than the orbit. Fins — dorsal commences over the ventral, and midway between the end of the snout and the 

 base of the caudal : its last undivided ray is osseous, very strong, serrated posteriorly, and as long as the head, 

 the upper margin of the fin concave : caudal forked. Lateral-line — complete, 2^ rows of scales between it and 

 the root of the ventral : 10 rows before the dorsal fin. Golowrs — a black band extends from the eye to the 

 termination of the central caudal rays. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



7. Barbus goniosoma, Plate CXXXVII, fig. 2. 



Puntvus (Ba/rbodes) gqniosoma, Bleeker, Prod. Cyp. p. 349, and Atl. Ich. Cyp. p. 105, t. 31, f. 1. 

 Barbus goniosoma, Giinther, Catal. vii, pp. 124. 



B. iii, D. 11 (f), P. 15, V. 8, A. 7 (f), C. 19, L. 1. 24, L. tr. m^. 



Length of head about 5, of caudal 65, height of body 3i in the total length. JEyes — diameter 2/7 of 

 length of head, 1 diameter from end of snout, and Ij apart. Body elevated to the base of dorsal fin, -yrhilst it 

 is strongly compressed. Rostral barbels extend to below the middle of the eye : the maxillary ones to opposite 

 the posterior margin of the orbit. Fins — origin of dorsal slightly posterior to the insertion of the ventrals, and 

 midway between the anterior margin of the orbit and the base of the caudal : its spine is osseous, strong, as 

 long as the head without the snout, and finely serrated posteriorly in its whole extent : the fin is 1/2 as high as 

 the body. Caudal forked, the lower lobe the longer. Lateral-line— 2i rows of scales between it and the base 

 of the ventral fin : 9 rows before the dorsal. Free portion of the tail rather higher than long. Colours — silvery, 

 fins orange. 



Habitat. — Mergui to Sumatra. I have obtained specimens at the first place up to 6 inches in length. 



8. Barbus roseipinnis. 



Cuv. and Val. xvi, p. 169 ; Bleeker, Beng. p. 60 ; Jerdon, M. J. L. and Sc. 1849, p. 314. 

 B. iii, D. 11 (f), A. 7 (f), C. 20, L. 1. 22. ' 



Dorsal profile elevated, ^yes— large. Bwrbels — ^four, thin and long. Fms — dorsal with its last 

 undivided ray osseous, of moderate length and serrated. Golowrs — silvery : ventral, anal and caudal fins reddish, 

 the lower border of the last tinged with black. 



Habitat. — Pondicherry, from whence M. Belanger brought specimens 4^^ inches in length, which 

 unfortunately had been mislaid when I was last in Paris. 



b. Last undivided dorsal ray, osseous and entire. 



9. Barbus dubius, Plate CXXXVII, fig. 1. 



Punti/us (Ba^bodes) dmhius, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 291. 

 Ba/rbus dmbius, Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 127. 

 Collee-amngean candee, Tarn. 



B. iii, D. 12 (f), P. 17, V. 9, A. 7 (f ), L. 1. 42-46, L. tr. 9/8. 



Length of head 5|, of caudal 4^, height of body 4| in the total length. Eyes — diameter 4ii in length of 

 head, IJ diameters apart, and also from end of snout. Dorsal profile rather more convex thto. that of the 

 abdomen. Barbels— ra.iher short, the rostral pair being about equal to half the diameter of the orbit : whilst 

 the maxillary are a little longer. Snout somewhat elevated, i^ms— dorsal spine osseous, smooth, and strong, it 

 IS nearly as long as the head, the fin commences somewhat nearer to the end of the snout than the base of the 

 caudal, and a little in advance of the insertion of the ventral. Lateral-line— complete, 4| to 6 rows of scales 

 between it and the base of the ventral fins : 14 rows before the dorsal fin. Colours— uniform silvery, with the 

 bases of the scales darkest. 



Habitat.— Bowanj river at the foot of the Neilgherries. The example figured was 10 inches in length. 



