Gobio. INDIAN CYPRINID®. 361 
The length of the head is equal to the altitude of the body, and in pro- 
portion to the length of the latter as one to three. The head is a little more 
compressed than the body, and deep, especially at the snout, which is rough 
and porous, as well as muscular and prominent. The mouth is small, the lips 
thick, hard, and smooth without cirri. There are about forty-three scales along 
the lateral line, and the lower lobe of the caudal is longer than the upper. 
The fin rays are, 
DO VEO WALT) Cie 
The colour above is dark bluish, softened off on the sides to the lateral 
line, below which it is white. The scales are lanceolate at the apex, and their 
structure is nearly uniform at both extremities. 
The intestines are of great length, equal at least to those of G. tsurus ; 
the liver is very obscurely developed, and distributed in minute detached 
lobes in various parts of the abdomen. 
X.—Cyrprinus Boca, Buch. P. G. t. 28, f. 80. 
Cyprinus arixa, id. Cyprinus pangusia, 1d. 
The two first are chiefiy distinguished from each other by the structure 
of the lower lip. Of Cyprinus boga, Buchanan in one place says, labeo inferiore 
crenato,* and in another, that the under lip is zrdented on the edge.+ Of 
Cyprinus ariza he says in one place, labeo inferiore reflexo, integerrimo ; 
vostro levi ; in another place he observes of the same species, that the under lip 
is reflected on the edge, and omits any allusion to a peculiarity of the nose, 
further than that it is supplied with large pores, but he also remarks this 
of Cyprinus boga. Were I to detail the attempts I have made to distin- 
guish these two species with all the fishes of Bengal that I have been able to 
* Pisce. Gang. 386. + Op. Cit. 286. 
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