INDIAN CYPRINIDZ. 271 
Variet. Cyp. putitora, Buch. 
Head small and blunt, with eleven rays in the dorsal, 
attaining occasionally nine feet in length.* 
Spec. B. megalepis,; Hardw. Must. t. 93. 
Cyp. mosal, Buch. 
Mahdaseer of the Hindus. 
Body below uniformly arched at the insertion of the anal, 
length of the head to that of the body as one to three. D.13: 
D7 8 eA07 2 Cars: 
Has. Northern parts of Bengal. Length occasionally four 
or five feet. 
Spec. B. chelynoides, J. M. t. 57. f. 5. Jour. A. S. vii. t. 56. f. 5. 
Head large, lips thick and smooth, thirty-three scales 
along the lateral line, and nine in an oblique line from the 
base of the ventrals to the dorsum. D.10: P.16: V.9: A.7: 
C.18. 
Has. Mountain streams at Simla. Usual size about six 
inches in length. Dr. Macleod’s Coll. 
Oss. The following five species have the dorsal spine serrated behind. 
The first three are probably varieties of the same species. 
* This fish I have been unable to identify with Buchanan’s description, I may therefore 
have described it under another name; he says the head is blunt, oval, small, and smooth, 
which scarcely applies to either of the foregoing, in which the head is remarkably lengthened ; 
that of B. hexagonolepis would come nearest to it, though some of the others seem to correspond 
more in other respects with the account given. Pisce. Gang. 303. 
+ From Mega large, and lepzs a scale. 
