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On the Fresh Water 



[No. 35, 



out. I procured a single specimen of this fish in the Cavery at Se- 

 ringapatam, but do not now possess it. It is called Kum-min by 

 the fishermen there. 



f Cirrhinus Cuvierii. 

 Dangila Leschenaultii. Val. 



Labial cirrus fine, maxillary one fleshy; both short; body 

 elongated ; head short, one-sixth of total length of body ; height 5^ 

 times in length ; eye large ; 40 scales along the body ; greenish 

 above, silvery beneath ; D. 3-13, A. 3-5 — fins yellowish. 



I procured what I imagine to be this fish from the neighbourhood 

 of Madras. Valenciennes' specimens were from Pondicherry. He 

 places it as a Dangila, a genus he characterizes as having an edging 

 of conic papillse on the upper lip. 



* Cirrhinus Dusswrnerii. 

 Rohita Dussumierii. Val. 



Body elongated, its height being 4f in its total length ; head 

 one-sixth of length ; muzzle rounded, with a few large pores ; 

 cirri small; lips fringed; 60 scales along the body. D. 3-13, A. 

 3-5 — greenish yellow above, silvery beneath, fins with a greenish 

 tinge, 10| inches long. 



I have not yet seen this fish, which is said to have been brought 

 from the neighbourhood of Alipey in Travancore. It has smaller 

 scales than most of the genus. 



* Cirrhinus Bouxii. Val. Rdkita. Val. 

 Cirri very short ; caudal much forked, 46 scales along the body ; 

 D. 3-12, A. 3-5. Steel blue on the back ; silvery iron grey beneath, 

 fins dusky — 6 inches long. Said to have been brought from Bom- 

 bay. I have not seen it. 



* Cirrhinus Jimlriatus. Bloch. 

 Mdhita. Val. 



Cirri very minute ; head short, broad, five times and one-third in 

 the total length ; many mucous pores on the snout, which is round- 

 ed ; height of body one quarter its length ; 45 scales along the body, 

 D. 3-16, A. 2-8, from Pondicherry. 



I do not know this fish. 



+ Name changed in consequence of there being also a Eohila Leschenaultii, which is & 

 Cirrhinus apud nos. 



