Barbus. INDIAN CYPRINIDZ. 341 
The colour is green above, below silvery ; scales large. Such are the only 
characters of value given of this species by Buchanan, who supposed it to be 
probably identical with Cyp. kunamoo, Russ., though the dorsal of that species 
contained only nine, and the anal only seven rays. 
VIII.—B. spitopHowus, J. M. 
Pl. 39. f. 4. 
Cyp. chagunio, Buch. 
Length of the head to that of the body is as one to three, head much 
compressed, eyes equidistant between the snout and the branchial aperture, 
suborbitar plates narrow, cheeks and snout porous, the latter abrupt, depressed, 
and projecting in front of the mouth which is low, narrow, and horizontal ; 
dorsal margin sharp in front of the fin; the third ray of the dorsal finely 
serrated behind, the last is double. The fin rays are, 
Diiie P15: V.92A.77C.~ 
Forty-seven or forty-eight scales are placed along the lateral line, and 
sixteen or seventeen in an oblique line from the base of the ventrals 
to the dorsum, with a black diffuse spot at the base of each scale; colour 
blackish grey along the back, changing to bluish white below. The specimen 
from which the description and drawing were taken, was presented to the 
Society by Mr. Hodgson, and had the two last rays of the anal prolonged to 
extended filaments; the species is probably the same as the following, which 
like C. sarana is said to have large scales,* but if we compare the scales of 
* The fin rays of Cyprinus chagunio, Buch. correspond with those of Cyprinus pitutora, id. ; 
but in the former, the dorsal spine is serrated, and in the latter it is smoother behind ; in the former 
there are but twenty-six scales along each lateral line, in the latter forty-eight. The Indian Barbels 
may be conveniently divided into two sections, namely—species with large scales and smooth dorsal 
spine, and species with smaller scales and serrated dorsal spine. This group as well as the Cirrhins 
requires to be made the subject of a distinct monograph. 
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