﻿SS4 GANGETic FISHES. Order V. 



sed. The colour is silver, with a greenish back, and no spots 

 either on the body or fins. The eyes are silver. 



The head is oval, small, and blunt. The nose is fleshy, and 

 projects a little beyond the mouth, which is small and arched. 

 The jaws have scarcely any lips, and protrude in opening, the 

 upper being the longest, and entire at the end. The nostrils 

 are near the eyes, and each has only one aperture. The eyes 

 are high, near the middle of the head, and of moderate size. 

 The gill-covers are rounded. 



The back has a convex edge, with a pale line before the fin. 

 The shoulder-bones are covered with scales. The upper lateral 

 line is straight, the under parallel to the belly. The vent is be- 

 hind the middle. The scales adhere slightly, and are small. 

 There are no scale-like appendants above the lower fins. 



The dorsal fin is behind the middle : the first and second of 

 its rays are undivided ; the first being short : the others are 

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

 are low, sharp above, and smaller than the head. The ventral 

 fins do not extend to the vent, and their rays are undivided. 

 The anal fin slopes backward : the first and second of its rays 

 are short, and the last is divided to the root. The tail fin is di- 

 vided into two lobes, of which the upper is the bluntest. It 

 contains seventeen distinct rays, besides several short compact- 

 ed ones. 



71st Species.— Cyprinus mola. Plate XXX VIII. Fig. 92. 

 A Cyprinus of the Cabdio kind, with nine rays in the dorsal 

 fin, seven in that behind the vent, fifteen in each pectoi'al, and 

 nine in each ventral ; and with two lateral lines on each side. 



This is the most common and most generally diffused spe- 

 cies of this division with which I am acquainted, and is found 



