334 INDIAN CYPRINID&. Peonomine. 
his collection is B. progeneius. It seems to delight in the clear brisk currents 
of large rivers, passing during the dry season into shallow tributaries to depo- 
sit its spawn; I am not aware of its being found in the jeels and muddy 
rivers of Bengal. Buchanan mentions it as growing to three or four feet in 
length; those I saw in Assam varied from twenty inches to two and a half 
feet. As an article of food it equals the Ruee, and might be extensively 
propagated, especially in low hilly districts where that fish would not 
answer so well. 
II. —B. PrRocenetus, J. M. 
fe 5 Ge ikeeoe 
Jungha of the Assamese. 
Length of the head to that of the body as one to three ; scales large and 
rounded posteriorly ; twenty six along each lateral line, and six from the base 
of each ventral to the dorsum. Fins short. ‘The number of rays are, 
D9 PAG VEORGAN7e2 Calo} 
The head is long and much compressed, the mouth is narrow and small, 
and from the lower lip a fleshy appendix is extended, by which it is distin- 
euished from the neighbouring species; nevertheless it is figured in Bucha- 
nan’s collection of drawings as Cyp. tor, to which it bears so close an affinity 
that he may probably have considered it to be the same. The intestines 
are capacious, and consist of four convolutions extending along the posterior 
half of the abdominal cavity, leaving the anterior portion of that cavity 
chiefly to the stomach and liver. The first is a conical sac (larger than 
the stomach of the Cirrhins) occupying the right side, and terminating simply 
in the intestine. The liver is broad consisting of several lobes, chiefly placed 
on the left side of the stomach. 
