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F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinidce. 
[No. 3, 
Colitis Mysorensis, Jerdon, M. J. L. and S., 1849, p. 332. 
Platacanthus ayrensis, Day, Pishes of Malabar, p. 201, pi. 14, f. i. 
Assaree, Tam. ; Jubbi cowri, Uriah ; Bdlu, Hind. 
B. III. D. 3/6. P. 7. V. 7. A. 2/5. C. 16. 
Length of head 1 / 11 , of caudal 1/8, height of body 1/8 of the total 
length. Barbels eight, the longest extending to below the anterior margin 
of the orbit. Suborbital spine, strong. Fins. — Origin of dorsal slightly in 
advance of the ventral, and nearer the root of the caudal than the snout. 
Caudal slightly emarginate. The inner pectoral ray is modified in adult 
males into a flat osseous spine which is used for diving down into the mud. 
Scales distinct. I found 2,500 eggs in one female. Colours, sandy, with 
irregular blotches on the lateral line, and others along the bach ; a black 
spot generally exists, at the base of the upper half of the caudal fin. Dorsal 
fin with black spots, caudal with four bands. A dark streak often extends 
from the eye to the end of the snout. 
1 lab . — Southern India, the Malabar coast and Ceylon. 
2. LEPIBOCEPHABICHTHYS BALGAKA. 
Colitis lalgara, Ham. Buch., Pish. Gang. pp. 350, 394 j Cuv. and Val., xviii p. 74. 
Schistura lalgara, McClell., Ind, Cyp., p. 307, pi. 53, f. 2. (from H. B.’s MS.). 
„ aculeata, McClell , 1. o. p. 307 ; Cuv. and Val. xviii, p. 70. 
Lepidocephalichthys lalgara, Gunther, Catal. vii, p. 365 ; Day, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 70. 
? Colitis Camaticus, Jerdon, M. J. L. and S., 1849, p. 331. 
Jubbi cowri, Uriah. 
B. III. D. 2/6. V. 7. A. 2/5. „ 
This species closely resembles the preceding. Suborbital spine small, 
and decreasing with age. Dorsal fin not in advance of the ventrals ; caudal 
cut square. In one male specimen, taken in the Ganges at Hardwar, the 
inner pectoral ray was of the same character as in the last species. Colours, 
clouded with brown along the back, lighter on the abdomen ; the whole of 
the body dotted over with lines of black spots ; a black mark at the top of 
the base of the caudal. Six to eight rows of spots along the dorsal fin, and 
about ten sinuous and broken up lines of spots on the caudal. 
Hub. — India generally. In some specimens from the Soane river, the 
mandibular barbels are sub-divided. 
Genus. 7. Botia, Gray. 
Bymenophysa, McClelland. 
Body oblong, compressed, with the dorsal prof le more or less convex. 
Fyes with a free, circular eyelid. Barbels six to eight ; if six, all are 
on the snout and upper jaw, if eight the extra ones are on the mandible. 
A bifid, erectile, suborbital spine present. Dorsal fin commences anterior 
to the root of the ventral ; caudal forked. Air bladder in two divisions, the 
