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INDIAN FRESH-WATER FISHES. 
formed by both lips, and having a free margin, 
it is extended some distance posterior to the lower 
jaw as in the genus Discognathus, from which 
it essentially differs in that the sucker is completed 
by the upper lip, so as entirely to surround the 
opening of the mouth.” 
Char. Barbels 4. Scales 35. Dorsal rays 8. Anal 
6. No scales on the chest. 
A dark blotch under the dorsal fin, and a mark at 
the base of the caudal. 
Hab. Probably Northern India. 3^ inches. 
Leuciscus rubripes, Jerdon. 
This may be a Basbora, or a Barilius. It was 
described from a single species and requires redis- 
covering. 
Hab. Bowany River. 6 inches. 
Description. Dorsal rays 9. Anal 9. Scales 45, 
transverse 12. Barbels 2. Depth contained 4 times, 
head 4 times in total. 
Mouth very slightly oblique. The dorsal arises 
above the interspace between the ventral and anal 
fins. Caudal fin lunate. Lateral lines bent down- 
wards. 
Colours : green above, golden on the sides, silvery 
beneath. Dorsal fin yellow, edged with black ; 
pectorals yellow, ventral and anal white, tipped 
with vermilion, caudal pink in the centre, yellow 
externally. 
