346 INDIAN CYPRINID#. Peonomine. 
II.—Gen. CYPRINUS proprivs. 
Body elevated, lower jaw short and rounded in front, lips hard, thick, and 
without cirri; dorsal long. 
I.—C. sremipLotus, J. M. 
Sundaree and Sentoree of the Assamese and Singphos. 
PINS6 Hie. 1 
The head is small and fleshy, depressed at the snout, which is thick and 
square, with a row of nine large pores extending horizontally round the nose. 
The body is compressed and deep, the upper and lower margins unequally 
arched, the dorsal is long, and preceded by a spine. The fin rays are, 
D.27: P.16: V.9: A.9: C.19. 
The colours along the back are greyish black, changing to bluish white 
along the sides. There are thirty-two scales along the lateral line, and ten in 
an oblique row from the base of the ventrals to the dorsal. 
Mr. Griffith remarks, that the ordinary weight of this species varies from 
14 to 24 pounds, and that it is usually found near rapids; the larger ones in the 
deeper waters, where they are seen, particularly of an evening, rising to the 
surface, but they refuse all sorts of flies and baits, although if a stone be cast 
into the water, all these fishes in the vicinity assemble round the spot. The 
Dhoms (fishermen) take them by a casting net, observing great silence, and 
frequently first dropping a stone to assemble the fish in the spot on which it 
is intended to cast the net. 
Structure.—The opercular plates and bones of the head are concealed 
beneath a thick skin, or integument. The intermaxillary is fixed to the 
maxillary bones, and these last to the nasal and suborbitar plates, so as to 
