Gobio. INDIAN CYPRINID&. 355 
There are thirty-five scales along the lateral line, and fourteen in an 
oblique row from the base of the ventrals to the dorsum. Colour pale 
olive brown above, and reddish-white below. Intestines long, dark coloured, 
and convoluted in circles round the parieties of the abdomen. Posterior cell 
of the air vessel much larger than the anterior. 
It was found by Buchanan in the Bramaputra, and there it also occur- 
red to me. The only part of the figure in Hardwicke to be relied on is the 
outline, and even that is so obscured with a fanciful display of colours that 
no one, unless familiar with the species, could detect its resemblance to the 
drawing.* 
V.—GoBIO LIssORHYNCHUS, J. M. 
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This species includes those varieties, as far as I am able to make them out, 
referred to in the Gangetic Fishes under the names of Cyprinus cura, 
Cyprinus acra, and Cyprinus bata, and which are distinguished by hard 
smooth lips, snout without cirri, and with from eleven to twelve rays in the 
dorsal fin. In the preceding part of this paper, in which I have given an 
outline of the species and groups composing the family generally, I-have been 
anxious to keep distinct all species which we have any good authority for 
supposing really to exist in India, in hopes that further information will be 
obtained regarding them. 
Buchanan distinguished Cyprinus bata chiefly by the upper lobe of the cau- 
dal fin, which he says is longer than the lower ; but in the drawing he has left us, 
* During the twenty years Buchanan’s drawings lay at the Botanic Garden before they were 
transferred to Hardwicke’s Illustrations, many of the colours appear to have undergone a change, such 
as light blues and greens becoming dark brown ; not aware of this, the copyist has not only imitated the 
altered colours, but added a little to their intensity ; the consequence of which is, that both this and 
the other figures similarly obtained in the expensive work referred to, are made to appear in black, 
where they should only be pale grey or green. 
