﻿332 GANGETic FISHES. Order V. 



are of the same colour with the adjacent parts. The e^^es are 

 silver. 



The head is small, long-oval, and dotted on the nose. The 

 tendrils are minute. The mouth is under the nose, and small, 

 and opens directly backward. The jaws protrude in opening, 

 and are covered by pendulous lips, of which the under one is 

 indented on the edge. The nostrils are close to the eyest which 

 are high, flat, and of moderate size, with the longest axis of 

 the pupil vertical. The gill-covers do not conceal their meiri' 

 hranes. 



The lateral line runs straight along the middle of the side. 

 The vent is behind the middle. Before the fin the back slopes 

 straight down to the nose. The scales are large, adhere firmly, 

 and are surrounded by a margin. Above each ventral fin is a 

 scale-like appendant. 



The dorsal fin is before the middle, and its edge forms a con- 

 cave curve. It contains thirteen rays, of which the second is 

 longer than the first, and shorter than the third, all the three 

 being undivided, but the third has joints : the others are 

 branched, and the last is divided to the root. The pectoral fins 

 are shorter than the head, each containing about sixteen rays. 

 The ventral fins reach, with their ends, to the vent, and each 

 has nine rays. The edge of the anal fin is concave, and it con- 

 tains eight rays like those of the back. The fin of the tail con- 

 sists of two lobes, of which the upper is the longest and sharp- 

 est ; and it contains nineteen distinct rays, besides several short 

 compacted ones. 



68th Species — Cyprinus pausius. 

 A Cyprinus of the Morulius kind, with four tendrils ; with 

 fourteen rays in the fin of the back ; and with seven in that of 

 the vent. 



