302 INDIAN CYPRINID#. 
Spec. E'sox panchax, Buch. P. G. t. 3. f. 69. 
A black spot on the dorsal, opercula covered with scales. 
D.6: P.16: V.6: A.14: C.16. 
Has. Sunderbuns in Bengal, where it attains two inches in 
length. 
There is still a fourth species, t. 55. f. 4. which I derive from Buchanan’s 
collection of drawings, but cannot find it referred to in the Gangetic Fishes, 
we must therefore postpone naming it until we see the papers of the late 
Doctor, or the species itself. 
IV. Gen.—COBITIS. Liv. 
Cuar. Head and body elongated, little compressed, and no where depres- 
sed; the dorsal and ventral margins are little arched, and in some, almost 
straight; the snout is long and directed obliquely downwards, and projects 
slightly in front of a soft mouth, which is surrounded with short muscular 
cirri; three rays in the branchial membrane. 
Oss. I sub-divide them into two sub-genera according to their general 
structure and the form of the caudal fin.* 
* Since the remarks were made in a preceding part of this paper on Mr. Gray’s sub-division 
of the Loaches, I have been favoured with the perusal of a part of M. Agassiz’s great work on 
Fossil Fishes, in which I perceive the spined Loaches are separated from the Linnean genus as pro- 
posed by Mr. Gray. Surely a principle of division must be unnatural that would separate 
such species as Cob. oculata, t. 51. f. 1. and Cob. pavonacea, t. 52. f. 1.; and bring together such 
species as Cob. dario, Buch. P. G. t. 29. f. 95. and Cob. ctnnamomeg, t. 51. f. 5.—? : yet such would be 
the effect of adopting Mr. Gray’s genus Botia, or what would be the same thing, M. Agassiz’s genus 
Acanthopsis which differ only in name. 
