318 INDIAN CYPRINID#. Peonomine. 
ACCOUNT OF SPECIES. 
CIRRHINUS MACRONOTUs, J. M. 
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This is a large wholesome fish, much resembling the European Carp, but 
without the dorsal spine of that species. It is very nearly allied to Buchanan’s 
Cyp. nandina, but has three rays less in the dorsal fin, and other slight pecu- 
liarities, which may however be mere variations arising from artificial pro- 
pagation, or other causes. 
The length of the head to that of the body, exclusive of the head and 
caudal fin, is as one to four, and the greatest depth is equal to one-third of the 
length. The dorsal fin commences at the most prominent part of the back, 
at a distance from the head equal to about a third length of the body, and 
extends to within half such distance from the caudal. 
The ventrals are placed in the middle of the body, somewhat behind the 
commencement of the dorsal and the anal, on the posterior third of the space 
between the ventrals and the insertion of the caudal. The base of the dorsal 
fin is equal to nearly twice the length of the head; the first of its rays is 
scarcely half the length of the second, but all the rays are comparatively short, 
and the membrane of the fin thick and strong. The fin rays are, 
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There are forty-one scales along the lateral line, and thirteen in an oblique 
row from the base of the ventrals to the back. The head is larger in every 
respect than that of C. calbasu, Buch., but shorter and blunter, as well as more 
bulky, than that of C. rohita, Buch. The posterior margin of the operculum is 
the segment of a circle whose centre is situated on the lower and posterior 
