JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY. 
— • — 
Part II.— PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 
No. III.— 1872. 
Monograph op Indian Cyprinid^, Part Y,—by Surgeon Major F. Fay. 
[Received 7th March, 1872; read 1st May, 18/2. J 
3. Sub-family . — Cobitidina. 
[Continued from p. 29.] 
Pseudobranchiee absent. Body elongated, oblong, compressed or cylin- 
drical, but never depressed. Snout and lips fleshy. Mouth small, inferior 
and furnished with from six to twelve barbels. Pharyngeal teeth few and 
in one row. Vertical fins spineless. Dorsal fin with a varying number of 
rays (8-30); anal with few (7-8); ventrals absent in one genus. Scales 
small and cycloid, when present, and usually immersed in mucus. Lateral 
line single. Air vessel entirely, or partially, enclosed in a bony capsule. 
Geographical distribution. Loaches are found in tanks and nvers 
throughout the hills and plains of India and Barma, hut apparently are 
absent from the Andaman islands. All the recognised genera seem to be 
represented in the East. These fish are mostly captured by lading out 
tanks commencing to dry np, but as they dive about in the mud, they are 
usually difficult to capture. 
Uses . — They are all good as food. 
Synopsis of Genera. 
A. With an erectile spine near the orbit. 
1 Apm, eight barbels, two rostral, four maxillary and two mandibular. Spina 
suborbital Dorsal fin short (8 rays) in the posterior third of the body, but anterior 
to the anal. No ventrals. Barma. 
2. Acanthophthalmus, six barbels, two rostral, four maxillary. Spine suborbital. 
Dorsal and anal fins as in Apua. Ventrals present. N. E. India, Assam, Barma. 
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