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INDIAN FRESH-WATER FISHES. 
Eye in the centre, or slightly behind the centre of 
the head. Lips not fringed. 
Colour silvery, with some red marks on the scales. 
20. Labeo nashii. 
Hail Base of the Coorg Hills. 4 inches. 
Char. Ho barbels. Scales 41, transverse 13£. 
A black band from the eye to the centre of the 
caudal tin. A mark across the dorsal tin and the 
extremity of the caudal . 
21. Labse striolatus. 
Hib. Deccan and Central Provinces. 7 inches. 
Char. Scales 58 to 62. One pair of barbels. 
GENUS CIBRHINA. 
This genus contains some large and handsome fish, 
which are of considerable importance as food. 
They are long in shape, elegantly formed, and of a 
brilliant golden, bronze, or silvery appearance, fully 
deserving the Sanscrit appellation of mirga (the deer), 
which has been appropriated as the scientific name of 
one species. 
Char. The lips are thin and clean, neither of them 
being fringed ; there is a small knob on the centre of 
the lower jaw, at the junction of the two mandibular 
bones, by which the fishes of this genus may generally 
be distinguished. 
They have either one or two pairs of barbels, or 
none ; when there is only one pair, they are on the 
snout, the pair at the corners of the mouth being 
absent. In this respect they differ from the Labeos. 
