FAMILY, V— CTPRINIDiE. 579 



Sabitat. — Southern Ceylon. The example figured (life-size) is from a specimen in the British 

 Museum. 



59. Barbus guganio. 



Cypriwus gugcmio, Ham. Buch. Fishes, Ganges, pp. 338, 339, 392. 

 Leuds<Ms gugcmio, Cuv. and Val. xvi, p. 445 ; Bleeker, Beng. p. 68. 

 Crugcmi, Beng. 



B. iii, D. 10(1), P. 12, V. 9, A. 7. 



Ctprinus Gtjganio {E. B.'sMS.figwre.) 



" Head oval, small, blunt and dotted. Mouth small. The jaws protrude in opening, the upper is the 

 longest. * * The eyes are far forwards on the sides of the head and large." Fins — the dorsal is near the 

 middle, its osseous ray is strong and serrated. Scales — large and firmly adherent. Lateral-line — incomplete. 

 Gohwrs — the back dotted. 



Habitat. — Gangetic provinces and Assam. It scarcely exceeds an inch and a half in length. This 

 species is evidently allied to Ba/rhus amibassis, p. 676. 



h. Osseous dorsal ray entire. 

 60. Barbus stigma, Plate CXLI, fig. 5. 



Oyprinus sophore, Ham. Buch. Pish. Ganges, plate xix, fig. 86 (not pp. 310, 389.) 



Systomus sopkore, McClell. Ind. Oyp. pp. 285, 382 ; Bleeker, Beng. p. 62 ; Jerdon, M. J. L. and S. 1849, 

 p. 316 (not Ham. Buch.) 



Lmcisms stigma and sulphmeus, Cuv. and Val. xvii, pp. 93, 96, pi. 489 ; Bleeker, Beng. p. 68 ; Jerdon, 

 1. c. p. 317. 



Leiudscus DvmauoeUi, Cuv. and Val. xvii, p. 95, pi. 4yl ; Bleeker, Beng. p. 66. 



OypriMus sophore, Cuv. and Val. xvi, p. 388. 



Systomus Dwvaucelii, Bleeker, Prod. Gyp. p. 278. 



Barbus Du/voMcelii, Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 151. 



Puntius modestus, Kner, Novara Fische, p. 348, t. 15, f. 3. 



Barbus sophore and modestus, Giinther, Catal. vii, pp. 152, 156. 



Ba/rbus stigma, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 198, 1869, p. 375. 



Ghadm-perigi, Tel. : Patia-kerundi, Ooriah : Katcha-karawa and Pottiah, Hin. : Kateh-ha/rawa, Can. : 

 Nga-hhoon-ma, Burm. 



B. iii, D. ll-12(^y , P. 17, V. 9, A. 8(1), C. 19, L. 1. 23-26, L. tr. 4^-5/5, Vert. 15/14. 



Length of head 5, of caudal 5, height of body 3^ to 3f in the total length. %es— diameter 3^ to 4 in 

 length of head, 1/2 to 1 diameter from end of snout, 4 to 2 diameters apart. Dorsal profile much more convex 

 than that of the abdomen, and a little concave over the occiput. Upper jaw slightly the longer. Lower labial 

 fold mterrupted. Ba/rbels— absent. Teei/i— pharyngeal, crooked, 5, 3, 2/2, 3, 5. J'ms— dorsal 1/2 to 2/3 as 

 high as the body, its last undivided ray osseous, rather weak or of moderate strength, entire, as long as the 

 head without the snout, or even less ; it commences rather in advance of the insertion of the ventral, and 

 midway between the end of the snout and the base of the caudal. £aferaZ4me— complete, 3 to 3^ rows of 

 scales between it and the base of the ventral fin : 8 to 9 rows before the dorsal fin. Occasionally m theN.W. 

 Provinces and Bengal specimens occur with 1. 1. 27. Free portion of tail as high as long. CoZows— silvery, 

 with a scarlet lateral band at some seasons, and a dark mark across the base of the middle dorsal rays, this last 

 being occasionally absent. A round black blotch, more or less distinct, at the root of the caudal fin. 



The type of L. Du/uaueeUi is still in good preservation at Paris, and is this species. 



Habitat.— Sind, throughout India and Burma as high as Mandalay. As food it is bitter. In January, 

 1868, 1 found 1860 developed ova in one female fish at Madras. It attains at least 6 inches m length. 



61. Barbus chrysopterus, Plate CXLIII, fig. 6. 

 Systomus chrysopterus, McClell. Ind. Gyp. pp. 285, 383 ; Bleeker, Beng. p. 60. 



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