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the Gobio limnophilus of McClelland, for the reason 
that this species has a pair of rostral barbels, which 
the latter has not. McClelland’s fish is very abundant 
in the Sylhet district, where it forms a staple article of 
food, being taken in vast quantities, especially when 
the country begins to dry up, and the inundations 
to subside, about November. The fishermen build a 
screen of bamboo work at the mouth of a drainage 
cutting where the water that has flooded the fields for 
several months flows into a stream. 
The fish trying to get back to the river are stopped 
by this impediment and crowd together in thousands, 
till the water boils with them. A second barrier is 
then built up a hundred yards or so above, and be- 
tween these two screens the fish are kept, being bailed 
out by the fishermen as they are wanted, and sold at 
the weekly markets at the foot of the Khasia hills, 
both in a fresh and dried state. 
In this part of the country this fish is called 
cc Ehie,” I am inclined to think, however, that it 
must be a distinct species from Crossochilus reba. If 
some person would forward a few specimens to the 
Calcutta museum, this point might be cleared up.) 
7. Crossochilus mosario. 
Hab. Assam. Length about a span. 
Char. Barbels wanting. 
Scales 37, transverse 12. 
8. Crossochilus isurus. 
Hab. Kiver Hoogly. 
Char. Barbels 2. Scales 36, transverse 10. 
