16 Cyprinoid like a " Back brownish:
this colour
Bleak, Schizo-
limited to a narrowish line,
thorax,
otherwise entirely pearly.
Peritoneum
covered with black
pigment.
Intestines rather
large,
in 3 or 4 folds.
17 Cyprinoid. A nar- " A very
pretty species,
row deep fish.
brownish back, marked faintly
Perilamp.
An both longitudinally and
Opsarion?
transversely with iridescent
patches,
abdominal fins
reddish.
18 Cyprinoid, Jheels, etc, Bus- A handsome
species allied to
soollah,
very the Mahaseer; back black,
common,
otherwise yellowish, fins
tinged
with red, scales as it
were
bordered with
dusky-black.
Intestines
short.
19 " " An oval,
rather thick fish,
of
obscure colours.
20 " Schizo- " An elegant
species, back
thorax.
obscurely brown, otherwise
pearly.
Peritoneum black,
covered
with pigment.
Intestines
very long and
narrow.
21 Racoma nobilis{0c} Lalpoor, Cabul A stout
fish, with a large
river,
head, not unlike a trout at
first
sight Sides bluish
silvery
grey, back obscurely
brown,
remarkable for
frequent
irregular
well-defined
black spots,
faintest
in small specimens,
fins
tinged with reddish.
Head
flat at top, with some
spots.
Peritoneum with black
pigment.
Intestines of large
size,
loaded with fat, short,
not
twice the length of the
abdomen,
cavity loaded with
fat.
As usual no caeca. A
remarkable
type: aspectu
omnino
carnivoris.