320 INDIAN CYPRINID. Peonomine. 
Gour, on the northern side of Bengal, where it usually attains two or three feet 
in length, and is a well flavoured and wholesome food. Its form, he says, is 
thick, but still slightly compressed, and the colour of the upper part of the 
body is dark green, with a coppery gloss; below it is white; the fins are dark, 
and the eyes red. Buchanan supposed that of all fishes he had met with in 
India, the Mandin has the greatest resemblance to the European Carp, but that 
many of its qualities are different ; to this I may add, that it wants the dorsal 
and anal spines of Cyprinus carpio, while it differs from Cyp. fimbriatus, Bl. in 
having cirri, as well as a much longer dorsal. 
II].—Cyerrinus caLBasu, Buch. 
Op. Cit. Pl. 11. f. 83. MKalbasu, and Kundna of the fishermen. 
It is stated by Buchanan that this species is closely allied to the Barbel of 
Europe; and Cuvier on his authority referred it to that genus, although 
it has neither the short dorsal, nor the spines of the Barbels. Buchanan's 
figure though tolerably characteristic, presents the operculum too much 
rounded, and in his description the dorsal is said to be straight above, although 
it is falciform, and the nostrils to have but one aperture on either side. 
Buchanan was aware of the existence of two varieties of this species, and 
it strikes me he has applied the description of one, to the figure of the 
other. The following seems to me to be the variety he has figured. 
General colour deep leaden blue, scales dotted, fins dark, lips pendulous 
and fimbriated, forty-two scales on the lateral line, fourteen in an oblique row 
from the base of the ventrals to the dorsum. Fin rays, D.15: P.17: V.9 or 
10: A.8:C.2 There is yet a third kind, probably a distinct species, with 
red ventrals and forty scales along the lateral line, and twelve in an oblique 
row from the base of the ventrals to the dorsum. 
The following is a description of the other, or ferruginous variety, 
Kundhna of the natives :— 
