350 INDIAN CYPRINID#. Peonomine. 
character by which Buchanan distinguished the group under the native name 
Bangon, but the ridge in question, though commonly met with, is not univer- 
sal, or peculiar to the group, as it is also observed in the genus Mugz/, and 
besides, is very obscure. 
The forms which come under this genus resolve themselves into three 
divisions—Ist, such as have two minute cirri; 2d, those with a hard, round, 
and smooth snout without cirri; 3d, species with a rough, soft, and fleshy 
snout. 
In the first of these divisions we have, 1. Cyprinus mrigala ; 2. Cyprinus 
curmuca ; 3. Cyprinus reba; 4. Cyprinus angra. 
In the second division we have, 1. G. lissorhynchus; 2. G. isurus ; 
3. G. limnophilus ; 4. G. bicolor ; and 5. G. anisurus.* 
In the third division, 1. G. ricnorhynchus+ ; 2. Cyprinus boga ; 3. Cyprinus 
pangusia; in all, eleven, which I have been enabled either to identify with 
Buchanan’s species, or describe as distinct. 
J.—CyYPrRINUS MRIGALA, Buch. 
Tassie lie Gatos 
This is one of the most important of our Indian species, and was justly asso- 
ciated by Buchanan with his Bangons, though afterwards erroneously referred in 
the Régne Animal to the Cirrhins. It is the Mrigala of Sanscrit writers, and 
the Mirga, Meerica, &c. of the Bengal and Assam fishermen. The figure 
given of it by Buchanan is not well expressed, the head is too much flattened 
or depressed, the scales are represented too large, and there are other dispropor- 
tions which to one well acquainted with the fish, give his figure an unnatural 
appearance, for which reason I have given another figure which has been care- 
* These species are probably equivalent to Cyprinus cura, Buch. Cyp. bata, id. andCyp. acra, 
id. I have however, been unable to reconcile them with Buchanan’s descriptions. 
+ Gob. ricnorhynchus, J. M. is equivalent to Cyp. falcata, Gray Hard. Illust. t. — f. —; Cyp. 
boga, Buch. Cyp. pangusia, id. and Gob. malacostomus of my synopsis are probably but one species. 
