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ray is of moderate strength, its stiff portion being three-fourths as 

 long as the head ; serrature rather feeble. Anal fin narrow and 

 deep. Interorbital space broad, flattish ; eye small. Anal scales 

 weU developed, the largest being nearly as broad as the orbit. 

 Cashmere; Afghanistan. 



a. Adult: stuffed. Jullalabad. From Griffith's Collection. 

 h-c. Adult and half-grown : skins. Hellmund River. From 

 Griffith's Collection. 



The reason why I hesitate to identify the Afghan specimens with 

 that described by Heckel from Cashmere, is the apparently greater 

 length of the anal fin of the former. If laid backwards, it nearly 

 reaches the root of the caudal fin, whilst it appears to terminate at 

 some distance from it in the figure of the Cashmere example. The 

 raised pores of the snout described by Heckel may have disappeared 

 in our examples, which are dried. 



2. Oreimis sinuatus. 



The Jis (Cashmere). 



Schizothorax sinuatus, Heckel, Fische cms Caschmir, p. 21, tab. 2. 

 Oreinus maculatus, M'Clell. As. Res. xix. p. 274, tab. 57. fig. 6, and 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. ii. 1842, p. 5R0. 



D. 11. A 8. 



Scales minute. The length of the head is two-ninths or one-fifth 

 of the total (without caudal). Snout of moderate length, the e^e 

 being nearer to its end than to that of the gill-cover ; barbels 

 staaU ; margin of the lower Up concave. Origin of the dorsal fin a 

 little nearer to the root of the caudal than to the end of the snout, 

 opposite to the root of the ventral. The osseous dorsal ray is of 

 moderate strength, its stiff portion being as long as the head, with- 

 out snout ; serrature well developed. Anal fin narrow and deep. 

 Interorbital space broad, convex; eye rather small. Anal scales 

 moderately developed, the largest being half as broad as the orbit. 

 Body with blackish dots. 



Cashmere^ Punjab. 



a. Half-grown : skin. Cashmere. Presented by H. Drummond, Esq. 

 h. Adult: skin. Noorpoor (Lower Hills of the Punjab). Presented 

 by H. Drummond, Esq. 



c. Half-grown : skin. Eiver Ravee (Punjab^. Presented by H. 



Drummond, Esq. 



d. Adult: skin. Presented by H. Drummond, Esq. 



e. f. Stuffed, 20 and 9 inches long. East Indies. 



g-i. Young: skins. Gundamuck (Afghanistan). From Griffith's 

 Collection. — Types of 0. maculatus. 



3. Oreinus richardsonii. 



The Asia. 



Cyprinus richardsonii, Gray, Lid. Zool. c. fig. 



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